What are common error messages encountered when using IMAP_Open in PHP?

When using IMAP_Open in PHP, common error messages include "Certificate failure for mail.example.com", "Can't connect to mail.example.com,993: Connection refused", and "Certificate failure for mail.example.com: self signed certificate". These errors are usually related to SSL/TLS certificate verification issues. To solve this problem, you can disable SSL certificate verification by passing the OPENSSL_NO_VERIFY flag in the options parameter of the IMAP_Open function. 

$hostname = '{mail.example.com:993/imap/ssl/novalidate-cert}';
$username = 'username';
$password = 'password';

$mailbox = imap_open($hostname, $username, $password, NULL, 0, array('DISABLE_AUTHENTICATOR' => 'GSSAPI', 'OPENSSL_NO_VERIFY' => 1));

if (!$mailbox) {
    echo "Error: " . imap_last_error();
} else {
    echo "Connected to mailbox successfully!";
}

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