IMAP User Authentication Plugin for Kanboard

Login to Kanboard using your IMAP credentials

Author

• Jim Mason [email protected]
• License MIT

Requirements

• Kanboard >= 1.2.8
• PHP IMAP module

Installation

You have the choice between 3 methods:

1. Install the plugin from the Kanboard plugin manager in one click
2. Download the zip file and decompress everything under the directory plugins/IMAPUserAuth
3. Clone this repository into the folder plugins/IMAPUserAuth

Note: Plugin folder is case-sensitive.

Configuration

Go to Settings > Integrations > IMAP User Authentication

Domain

Specify the domain name for IMAP authentication.

Example: If your IMAP usernames are of the form [email protected], then you will specify 'example.org' as the value for Domain; by default, the plugin will authenticate to the IMAP server at example.org.

IMPORTANT: If your IMAP usernames are simple names with no domain suffix, then leave this field blank and instead use IMAP Server to specify the server.

IMAP Server

Address of your IMAP server, together with optional port number and flags. In many cases, you may leave this field blank. This setting is necessary only if Domain is blank or your IMAP server has a different address from the domain name specified in Domain.

Some example IMAP Server settings:

• imap.example.org:993/imap/ssl/notls (IMAP with implicit TLS)
• imap.example.org:143/imap/tls (IMAP with explicit TLS)

Where imap.example.org is your IMAP server.

IMPORTANT: If your IMAP TLS certificate is invalid, then disable certificate validation by adding /novalidate-cert to the IMAP Server setting.

See imap_open for a discussion of the format of this field and a list of the available flags.

NOTE: You may specify IMAP Server alone or in combination with Domain.

If both options are specified, the value specified by IMAP Server is the address of the IMAP server, while the value specified by Domain will be appended to the username.

Users

You will need to setup a user in Kanboard for each user that will be authenticating via IMAP. Tick the Remote user checkbox for each IMAP user. The Disallow login form checkbox must NOT be ticked.

The Kanboard username should match the IMAP username, exclusive of any domain suffix. If the IMAP username includes a domain suffix (e.g., [email protected]), then specify the domain in the Domain setting above. In this case, the Kanboard username should be just the user portion of the IMAP username. When logging into Kanboard, the user may specify either the user portion only or the fully qualified username.