Hello, and kudos to the PHP team

This is similar to BugID #898; sorry to post "again", but it didn't look like there
was much info to go on in that report, hopefully this additional info will help:

* Summary:
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Trying to access an IMAP server via PHP under Windows (all versions 
apparently, WinNT 3.51, 4, 95, 98) causes "invalid remote specification"
and "couldn't open stream" errors.

* Details:
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I've installed PHP 3.0.5 for Win32 on NT 3.51 and 95, and then installed
the latest IMP webmail program for accessing IMAP mail servers (available
at http://web.horde.org/imp/ ).  When I try to access a test mail account,
I get the following errors:
Warning: Can't open mailbox {www.squish.com:143}INBOX: invalid remote specification in ./lib/imp.lib on line 203
Warning: Couldn't open stream {www.squish.com:143}INBOX in ./lib/imp.lib on line 203
Warning: Uninitialized variable or array index or property (mbox) in ./lib/imp.lib on line 204

The lines in question from imp.lib are below (I've numbered the lines of course...):
198 /* make sure the user has a valid login; if so, return an imap stream */
199
200  function validate_login($server, $port, $mailbox, $user, $pass) {
201  global $sidebar;
202  
203  if (! ($mbox = imap_open("{$server:$port}$mailbox", $user, $pass)) ) {
204    if (!$sidebar) {
205      echo '<script language=javascript>
206            window.location="login.php3?reason=timeout";
207  	    </script>
208	    ';
209    }
210  }
211  return $mbox;
212}

* Additional info:
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- I've found four other Win32 users experiencing the exact same problem with
  essentially the same setup: PHP 3.0.5, Win, IMP, and either IIS or O'Reilly 
  WebSite Pro web servers, so it appears the Win environment is involved.
- Loose consensus is the problem is in the PHP IMAP module "php3_imap4r2.dll"
- You can "experience" the problem at http://www.squish.com/imp/index.html
  by using "test" as username and "Guest" as password.
- I am able to login successfully to that same test account from the IMP web site, 
  at http://web.horde.org/cvs/imp/ which I believe is run on a Linux box.

I've tried everything I can think of, but I'm new to PHP so that's not much  ;-)
Thanks for your time and efforts.  Good luck!
Regards,
Mike