Bug #916: Accessing IMAP in Windows causes "invalid remote specification" error

From: mpg@squish.com Operating system: Windows NT, 95, 98 PHP version: 3.0.5 PHP Bug Type: Misbehaving function Bug description: Accessing IMAP in Windows causes "invalid remote specification" error Hello, and kudos to the PHP team This is similar to BugID #898; sorry to post "again", but it didn't look like there was much info to go on in that report, hopefully this additional info will help: * Summary: --------------- Trying to access an IMAP server via PHP under Windows (all versions apparently, WinNT 3.51, 4, 95, 98) causes "invalid remote specification" and "couldn't open stream" errors. * Details: ------------- I've installed PHP 3.0.5 for Win32 on NT 3.51 and 95, and then installed the latest IMP webmail program for accessing IMAP mail servers (available at http://web.horde.org/imp/ ). When I try to access a test mail account, I get the following errors: Warning: Can't open mailbox {www.squish.com:143}INBOX: invalid remote specification in ./lib/imp.lib on line 203 Warning: Couldn't open stream {www.squish.com:143}INBOX in ./lib/imp.lib on line 203 Warning: Uninitialized variable or array index or property (mbox) in ./lib/imp.lib on line 204 The lines in question from imp.lib are below (I've numbered the lines of course...): 198 /* make sure the user has a valid login; if so, return an imap stream */ 199 200 function validate_login($server, $port, $mailbox, $user, $pass) { 201 global $sidebar; 202 203 if (! ($mbox = imap_open("{$server:$port}$mailbox", $user, $pass)) ) { 204 if (!$sidebar) { 205 echo '<script language=javascript> 206 window.location="login.php3?reason=timeout"; 207 </script> 208 '; 209 } 210 } 211 return $mbox; 212} * Additional info: -------------------- - I've found four other Win32 users experiencing the exact same problem with essentially the same setup: PHP 3.0.5, Win, IMP, and either IIS or O'Reilly WebSite Pro web servers, so it appears the Win environment is involved. - Loose consensus is the problem is in the PHP IMAP module "php3_imap4r2.dll" - You can "experience" the problem at http://www.squish.com/imp/index.html by using "test" as username and "Guest" as password. - I am able to login successfully to that same test account from the IMP web site, at http://web.horde.org/cvs/imp/ which I believe is run on a Linux box. I've tried everything I can think of, but I'm new to PHP so that's not much ;-) Thanks for your time and efforts. Good luck! Regards, Mike -- PHP Development Mailing List http://www.php.net/ To unsubscribe send an empty message to php-dev-unsubscribe@lists.php.net For help: php-dev-help@lists.php.net