[Owncloud] IMAP authentication using user_external?

[Thomas Müller]

Am Mittwoch, dem 14.11.2012 um 23:47 schrieb Simon Brereton:
> On Nov 14, 2012 4:48 PM, "Marcel Waldvogel" <
> Marcel.Waldvogel at uni-konstanz.de> wrote:
> >
> > How can I authenticate externally against an IMAP server? Do I need to
> change apps/user_external/appinfo/app.php to include something like
> >
> > OC_User::useBackend(new OCP\user_external\IMAP("imap://localhost/");
> >
> > ? This does not look like the way matching the otherwise clean and
> modular design of ownCloud.
> >
> > BTW: Why is there no settings page for user_external? Has just nobody
> done this or is this on purpose?
> 
> I've been waiting some months for tips on this.  After being promised the
> functionality in 4.5 the lack of documentation or obvious settings is
> disappointing.
> 

Please open a bug report on the github page:
https://github.com/owncloud/core/issues/new

THX,

Tom

> Simon