IMAP and IMAPS Authentication are supported natively in tikiwiki, and can be configured as shown below:

NOTE: As of TikiWiki 3.0 these instructions are no longer valid. Only LDAP is supported under 3.0.

IMAP Authentication

  • Browse to Admin, Login, User registration and login
    • set "Authentication Method" to Tiki and PEAR::Auth
    • Click "Change preferences" at the bottom of the "User registration and login" section

  • Browse to Admin, Login, PEAR::Auth
    • set "Auth Type" to IMAP
    • Set "IMAP/POP3/LDAP Host" to be the IP address or hostname of your IMAP server
    • Set "IMAP/POP3/LDAP Port" to 143
    • Click "Change preferences"


Done!

IMAPS Authentication

Customizations required for IMAPS/SSL Support highlighted in green below.

  • Browse to Admin, Login, User registration and login
    • set "Authentication Method" to Tiki and PEAR::Auth
    • Click "Change preferences" at the bottom of the section

  • Browse to Admin, Login, PEAR::Auth
    • set "Auth Type" to IMAP
    • Set "IMAP/POP3/LDAP Host" to be the IP address or hostname of your IMAP server
    • Set "IMAP/POP3/LDAP Port" to 993
    • If your IMAPS certificate is signed by a well-known Certificate Authority:
      • Set "IMAP/POP3 BaseDSN" to /imap/ssl
    • If your IMAPS certificate is self-signed, or if the above setting does not work:
      • Set "IMAP/POP3 BaseDSN" to /imap/ssl/novalidate-cert
  • Click "Change preferences" at the bottom of the section

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Documentation needed.

Copy/paste from mailing list:
"On your page, in authentication, you are missing IMAP(S), it is a very good and simpler way to authenticate than LDAP. I just implemented it. It uses the same PEAR:Auth library."