An authentication provider for Laravel 5 that allows you to authenticate via IMAP.

Add the following line to the require section of your composer.json:

{
    "require": {
        "peckrob/laravel5-imap-authentication": "dev-master"
    }
}

Update your packages with composer update or install with composer install.

Add the ServiceProvider to the providers array in app/config/app.php.

        App\Providers\AppServiceProvider::class,
        App\Providers\EventServiceProvider::class,
        App\Providers\RouteServiceProvider::class,
        ...
        peckrob\Laravel5ImapAuthentication\ImapAuthServiceProvider::class,

In your app/config/auth.php, set the authentication driver to imap.

    'driver' => 'imap',

By default it will attempt to connect to localhost. If you want something different, add IMAP_AUTH_SERVER to the .env file:

IMAP_AUTH_SERVER=mail.example.com

Contributions are welcome. :)

https://github.com/peckrob/laravel5-imap-authentication