When impersonating a user (from admin), mail cant' be sent due to wrong provided credentials
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Description
Expected behavior
When impersonating a user, mail sending should work
Actual behavior
When impersonating a user, mail sending failed due to wrong supplied credentials (user in LDAP backend, IMAP login is attempted with admin password instead of user password => IMAP Srv refuse connection)
Mail app
Mail app version: 0.21.1
Mailserver or service: IMAP Srv selfhosted (dovecot)
Server configuration
Operating system: Ubuntu 18.04
Web server: Apache 2.4
Database: MariaDB 10.1
PHP version: 7.2
Nextcloud Version: Latest 17
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Research direction
No source files or tests are named. Reproduce mail sending while impersonating an LDAP-backed user against the reported self-hosted Dovecot IMAP server, then trace how impersonation selects credentials; done means the connection uses the impersonated user's credentials rather than the administrator's password and mail sends successfully.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- javascript, php
- Domain
- authentication, backend
- Issue type
- Bug
- Difficulty
- 4/5
- Estimated time
- 3-5 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 35/100