After looking through the code a bit, I think you can solve your issue using the imap_init plugin and one minor core change.  All in all it looks like an hours coding and 3 hours testing.<div><br></div><div><br></div><div>

imap_init is called in: program/include/rcmail.php  so all you need to do there is </div><div>1) Create your own socket/connection to the server and logon</div><div><br></div><div>$imapsocket = yourconnection();</div><div>

<br></div><div>2)set imap-&gt;conn-&gt;fp property to the socket your have opened</div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: &#39;Times New Roman&#39;; font-size: medium; "><pre style="word-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap; ">

$GLOBALS[&#39;IMAP&#39;]-&gt;conn-&gt;fp = $imapsocket;</pre><pre style="word-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap; ">3)set the logged property on connection so it knows it is connected</pre><pre style="word-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap; ">

<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: &#39;Times New Roman&#39;; white-space: normal; "><pre style="word-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap; ">$GLOBALS[&#39;IMAP&#39;]-&gt;conn-&gt;logged = TRUE;</pre><div>

<br></div><div>Now for the core code change:</div><div>In the imap library, the connect code is a do/while loop.  This means it always tries to connect at least once, even if you  are already connected.  And while it is possible to force the imap_generic option to abort the connection attempt by setting userid or password to nothing, it won&#39;t abort before setting logged to false, so roundcube will not think it is logged in.   Change that from a do/while loop to a while loop[move the condition to the top], or surround it by an if not connected clause, and you can bypass processing if you have already connected.</div>

<div><br></div><div><pre style="word-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial; white-space: normal; font-size: small; ">/program/include/rcube_imap.php</span></pre>

<pre style="word-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap; ">        <i><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#6633FF">do {
            $data = rcmail::get_instance()-&gt;plugins-&gt;exec_hook(&#39;imap_connect&#39;,
                array(&#39;host&#39; =&gt; $host, &#39;user&#39; =&gt; $user, &#39;attempt&#39; =&gt; ++$attempt));

            if (!empty($data[&#39;pass&#39;]))
                $pass = $data[&#39;pass&#39;];

            $this-&gt;conn-&gt;connect($data[&#39;host&#39;], $data[&#39;user&#39;], $pass, $this-&gt;options);
        } while(!$this-&gt;conn-&gt;connected() &amp;&amp; $data[&#39;retry&#39;]);</font></i></pre></div></span></pre></span></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>And that&#39;s it, you should be all good.</div><div>

<br></div><div>Sorry I couldn&#39;t be more help.  I actually haven&#39;t used RoundCube before.... I was let go a couple months ago and am in the process of setting up my website for doing web engineering freelancing.  The only reason I signed up to this list is because I want a webmail app to segregate out my email from multiple domains/addresses properly and RoundCube looks like the best one[Horde looks slightly better feature wise, but as too MANY features for my simple needs, while Squirrelmail has too few].  I don&#39;t currently have a test environment to throw all this onto to test it.</div>

<div><br></div><div>This was a fascinating problem though, so thanks for a few hours diversion.</div><div><br></div><div>-Gary</div>