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When opening a connection with the /ssl flag returns "Too many arguments provided".

It appears that the "php-imap" extension has not been compiled with SSL support.

Package: php-imap-5.3.3-14.el6_3.x86_64

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To reproduce:

<?php
$mbox = imap_open('{imap.domain.com:993/imap/ssl}INBOX', $user, $pass);
print_r(imap_errors());
?>

This results in the error message "Too many arguments provided".

Removing the "/ssl" flag:

<?php
$mbox = imap_open('{imap.domain.com:993/imap}INBOX', $user, $pass);
print_r(imap_errors());
?>

Still results in a failed connection (the remote server requires an ssl connection), but this kind of fixes the issue.

When compiling PHP, I suspect the additional flags should be given:

http://www.php.net/manual/en/imap.installation.php

> Note: Depending on how the c-client was configured,
> you might also need to add --with-imap-ssl=/path/
> and/or --with-kerberos=/path/ to the PHP configure line.

I confirm that imap extension is build with ssl and kerberos support.

From "php -i" output:

  IMAP c-Client Version => 2007e
  SSL Support => enabled
  Kerberos Support => enabled

I cannot reproduce this problem.

Please check the output of "php -i" or phpinfo() (the IMAP section)

Thanks for checking, you are right, this is not a bug with the RedHat RPM.

I have since found that the password I was providing (stored in a separate text file), contained a newline character by mistake.

I still believe this is a bug, but one that PHP should deal with:

https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=64402

Thanks for reporting this minor issue to PHP upstream.

As your problem is explained / solved, I close this bug.

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