[imp] Login / Integration

[Paul Kern]

Greetings, all.
My company has been using Horde/IMP for quite some time, and we're
looking to expand a little. We're currently using Horde 2.2, with IMP
3.2.1
We use the third party "Postini" as our junk mail filtering service.
What we would like to do, is have an icon in IMP, that would
automatically log a user into their Postini message center when
clicked.
I've already figured out how to add extra menu options/icons via
menu.php. What I'd like to know, is if it would be possible to write a
script that would re-use the login that the user used with Horde/IMP,
and pass it along to Postini when the new icon is clicked? (Is the
login info temporarily stored as a variable?) Also, could this be done
by either assigning a script to the "onclick" attribute for the new
menu item, or would I simply link the new icon to the script?
Has anyone else out there ever made such a script/customization?
Thanks!
-Stace

Stacy,

I know that this is an old post, but we are looking at doing this very thing.
Did you ever find a solution to this? Any help you could give would be very
helpful. Thanks.

Paul R. Kern
Alliance Communications
605.594.3411

***@alliancecom.net

Stacy J. Dunkle <sdunkle <at> pennswoods.net> writes:

[Eric Jon Rostetter]

What we would like to do, is have an icon in IMP, that would
automatically log a user into their Postini message center when
clicked.

This is possible, but fraught with security issues to be considered.

I've already figured out how to add extra menu options/icons via
menu.php. What I'd like to know, is if it would be possible to write a
script that would re-use the login that the user used with Horde/IMP,
and pass it along to Postini when the new icon is clicked? (Is the

Yes. You can retreive the username/password from IMP/Horde, assuming it
is the same as the username/password for the application you want to
login to.

login info temporarily stored as a variable?) Also, could this be done
by either assigning a script to the "onclick" attribute for the new
menu item, or would I simply link the new icon to the script?

How to do this would matter to a great extent on how you can login
or authenticate to the other application (Postini or whatever).

Has anyone else out there ever made such a script/customization?

Yes, it has been done. How to do it depends a great deal on the Horde/IMP
versions, and how the other application authenticates.

Of course the opposite may be possible too; login to Postini or whatever
first, and then have Horde respect that login...
--
Eric Rostetter
The Department of Physics
The University of Texas at Austin

Go Longhorns!

[Eric Jon Rostetter]

Post by Eric Jon Rostetter
Yes. You can retreive the username/password from IMP/Horde, assuming it
is the same as the username/password for the application you want to
login to.

Actually, this depends on the authentication backends used for Horde logins,
but at least in some cases you can do this. For example, this is how most
of the Sork modules work...
--
Eric Rostetter
The Department of Physics
The University of Texas at Austin

Go Longhorns!