i use imap_open() to establish a connection with my mailserver for checking bounced emails.
$pop3conn = imap_open('{localhost:110/pop3}', MAILLOGIN, MAILPWD);
if($pop3conn == false)
echo'<br />no conn';
else
{
// check mail headers and bodies
}
I get a PHP Notice about insecure authentication:
Notice: Unknown: SECURITY PROBLEM: insecure server advertised AUTH=PLAIN (errflg=1) in Unknown on line 0
I have searched on php.net and googled for hours, but can't find a solution how to get rid of this.
the only thing i found did also not work: adding /secure to the servername.
$pop3conn = imap_open('{localhost:110/pop3/secure}', MAILLOGIN, MAILPWD);
then i get:
Notice: Unknown: Can't do secure authentication with this server (errflg=2) in Unknown on line 0
Thanks in advance for any help!
I am a little surprised this is giving you in Unknown on line 0 as this normally only happens when the error occurs before the script begins to execute - however, the only real solution to this problem is to hide PHP errors.
It looks as though the server you are connecting to doesn't support secure authentication, and the only solution to this is to ask the server administrator to support it. Or to use a different server. There is nothing you can do in your code to work around that particular problem, so you will just have to handle the error instead of trying to fix it (much as I hate to recommend that approach to anyone for anything).
You may find that even calling ini_set('display_errors', 0) or using the evil @ operator won't fix this, since it is in Unknown on line 0 - although you shouldn't be showing PHP errors in a production environment anyway. You should ensure that your php.ini in production is set to hide errors from the user.