+/**
+ * Get an immutable copy of a configuration variable if SquirrelMail
+ * is in "secured configuration" mode. This guarantees the caller
+ * gets a copy of the requested value as it is set in the main
+ * application configuration (including config_local overrides), and
+ * not what it might be after possibly having been modified by some
+ * other code (usually a plugin overriding configuration values for
+ * one reason or another).
+ *
+ * WARNING: Please use this function as little as possible, because
+ * every time it is called, it forcibly reloads the main configuration
+ * file(s).
+ *
+ * Caller beware that this function will do nothing if SquirrelMail
+ * is not in "secured configuration" mode per the $secured_config
+ * setting.
+ *
+ * @param string $var_name The name of the desired variable
+ *
+ * @return mixed The desired value
+ *
+ * @since 1.5.2
+ *
+ */
+function get_secured_config_value($var_name) {
+
+ static $return_values = array();
+
+ // if we can avoid it, return values that have
+ // already been retrieved (so we don't have to
+ // include the config file yet again)
+ //
+ if (isset($return_values[$var_name])) {
+ return $return_values[$var_name];
+ }
+
+
+ // load site configuration
+ //
+ require(SM_PATH . 'config/config.php');
+
+ // load local configuration overrides
+ //
+ if (file_exists(SM_PATH . 'config/config_local.php')) {
+ require(SM_PATH . 'config/config_local.php');
+ }
+
+ // if SM isn't in "secured configuration" mode,
+ // just return the desired value from the global scope
+ //
+ if (!$secured_config) {
+ global $$var_name;
+ $return_values[$var_name] = $$var_name;
+ return $$var_name;
+ }
+
+ // else we return what we got from the config file
+ //
+ $return_values[$var_name] = $$var_name;
+ return $$var_name;
+
+}
+