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punarinta/email-auth
====================

Discover IMAP/SMTP settings, authenticate via any email

v1.0(9y ago)359.1k↑20%41MITPHPPHP >=5.4.0

Since Jul 8Pushed 9y ago1 watchersCompare

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EmailAuth
=========

[](#emailauth)

A library to authenticate via an arbitrary email or/and to discover IMAP/SMTP settings by email address. Can be for example used in the projects where one doesn't need to keep a user entity in the database, but for which at the same time an authentication with service providers like Google is not enough.

Installation
============

[](#installation)

- Install Composer:
- Run `php composer.phar require punarinta/email-auth:1.*`
- Assure "autoload.php" file from vendor directory is included

Sample usage
============

[](#sample-usage)

#### Authentication

[](#authentication)

```
use \EmailAuth\Auth;

$auth = new Auth;
if ($auth->login('your@email', 'your-password'))
{
  // You are authenticated.
}
elseif ($auth->status == Auth::STATUS_OAUTH_NEEDED)
{
  // Please authenticate via OAuth.
}
else
{
  // Thou shalt not pass!
}

```

#### Discovery

[](#discovery)

```
use \EmailAuth\Discover;
$discover = new Discover;

$config = $discover->imap('your@email');
echo "IMAP is on {$config['host']}:{$config['port']}, encryption is $config['encryption']}\n";

$config = $discover->smtp('your@email');
echo "SMTP is on {$config['host']}:{$config['port']}, encryption is $config['encryption']}\n";

```

Troubleshooting
===============

[](#troubleshooting)

##### Fatal error: Call to undefined function imap\_open()

[](#fatal-error-call-to-undefined-function-imap_open)

No IMAP module is installed for PHP. Here's an example for PHP7 and Ubuntu how to fix it.

```
sudo apt-get install php7.0-imap
sudo phpenmod imap

```

License
=======

[](#license)

This project is licensed under the terms of [**MIT**](https://github.com/punarinta/email-auth/blob/master/LICENSE) license.

###  Health Score

34

—

LowBetter than 77% of packages

Maintenance20

Infrequent updates — may be unmaintained

Popularity34

Limited adoption so far

Community12

Small or concentrated contributor base

Maturity58

Maturing project, gaining track record

 Bus Factor1

Top contributor holds 100% of commits — single point of failure

How is this calculated?**Maintenance (25%)** — Last commit recency, latest release date, and issue-to-star ratio. Uses a 2-year decay window.

**Popularity (30%)** — Total and monthly downloads, GitHub stars, and forks. Logarithmic scaling prevents top-heavy scores.

**Community (15%)** — Contributors, dependents, forks, watchers, and maintainers. Measures real ecosystem engagement.

**Maturity (30%)** — Project age, version count, PHP version support, and release stability.

###  Release Activity

Cadence

Unknown

Total

1

Last Release

3602d ago

### Community

Maintainers

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Top Contributors

[![punarinta](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/2189981?v=4)](https://github.com/punarinta "punarinta (41 commits)")

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