Re: [fetchmail-users] fetchmail can't talk to dovecot

[Matthias A. <mat...@gm...>]

Marco Fioretti <mfi...@mc...> writes:

> Hello,
>
> I have dovecot q1.0-0_22.rc7 up and running on a server: I can read
> email from squirrelmail just fine. When I try to download email with
> fetchmail, however, I get the result below. Why is that happening? In
> dovecot.conf I have:
>
> protocols = imap imaps pop3,
>
> so why should pop3 or imap fail?

Because Dovecot offers TLS (STLS/STARTTLS) and fetchmail uses it..

> fetchmail: POP3> STLS
> fetchmail: POP3< +OK Begin TLS negotiation now.

> fetchmail: IMAP> A0003 CAPABILITY
> fetchmail: IMAP< * CAPABILITY IMAP4rev1 SASL-IR SORT THREAD=REFERENCES MULTIAPPEND UNSELECT LITERAL+ IDLE CHILDRE
> N NAMESPACE LOGIN-REFERRALS AUTH=PLAIN AUTH=DIGEST-MD5
> fetchmail: IMAP< A0003 OK Capability completed.
> fetchmail: Protocol identified as IMAP4 rev 1
> fetchmail: IMAP> A0004 LOGIN "user_name" *
> fetchmail: IMAP< A0004 NO Authentication failed.
> fetchmail: IMAP> A0005 *

Whatever this is. Something's wrong here, but I'm not going to look at 6.3.2.

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Matthias Andree