WP IMAP Auth

This plugins replaces the regular authentication of WordPress and offers instead the authentication of users via IMAP accounts. Password reset and retrieving are suppressed in order to avoid confussion.

The IMAP authentication server as well as an automatic padding of the domain to a user name can be set on the plugins setting page under Settings > IMAP Authentication. Furthermore, users having a IMAP account on the defined server can automatically be register if set so.

Contributors: Aaron Parecki, Riccardo Magliocchetti, Lorenz Schmid, Marius Müller

1. Important notice: Existing user will not be able to log in after installation. Make sure you can access your WordPress database directly to make one new user to an adminsitrator.
2. Install the plugin through the WordPress plugins screen directly and activate WP IMAP Authentication plugin.
3. Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ screen in WordPress
4. Use the Settings->IMAP Authentication screen to enter your Mailbox, e.g.: {mail.domain.com/readonly}INBOX or {mail.domain.com:993/ssl/novalidate-cert/readonly}INBOX
5. Check “Register new user automatically if succesful IMAP authentification.””
6. Log in with your email address and email password.
7. Go to your WordPress database table wp_usermeta and set wp_capabilities to a:1:{s:13:"administrator";b:1;}.
8. Now you can log in with your new account as administratior. If you want you can disable “Register new user automatically”.
9. That’s it!

Installation Instructions

1. Important notice: Existing user will not be able to log in after installation. Make sure you can access your WordPress database directly to make one new user to an adminsitrator.
2. Install the plugin through the WordPress plugins screen directly and activate WP IMAP Authentication plugin.
3. Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ screen in WordPress
4. Use the Settings->IMAP Authentication screen to enter your Mailbox, e.g.: {mail.domain.com/readonly}INBOX or {mail.domain.com:993/ssl/novalidate-cert/readonly}INBOX
5. Check “Register new user automatically if succesful IMAP authentification.””
6. Log in with your email address and email password.
7. Go to your WordPress database table wp_usermeta and set wp_capabilities to a:1:{s:13:"administrator";b:1;}.
8. Now you can log in with your new account as administratior. If you want you can disable “Register new user automatically”.
9. That’s it!

Commercial Support

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4.0.1

• First stable version.