Provides an IMAP authentication provider for the Laravel 4 framework

Add the following lines to your composer.json file:

"require": {
    "ronaldcastillo/imap-authentication": "dev-master"
}

Now, run composer update on the command line from your project's root directory:

composer update

Add the following Service Provider to your providers array in app/config/app.php:

'providers' => array(
    'RonaldCastillo\Imap\ImapServiceProvider'
)

Change your driver to 'imap' in app/config/auth.php:

'driver' => 'imap',

Run this on the command line from the root of your project:

php artisan config:publish ronaldcastillo/imap-authentication

This will publish the necessary configuration to app/config/ronaldcastillo/imap-authentication/.

Within the configuration files we have two options:

return array(
    'identifier' => 'username',
    'datasource' => '{localhost:143}/readonly'
);

The identifier indicates the name of the field that will be used as the username for the authentication, while the datasource value is as specified in the php manual for the imap_open() function.