[fetchmail-users] [SOLVED] fetchmail can't talk to dovecot

[M. F. <mfi...@mc...>]

(sorry everybody for the very late answer, comments below)

The problem was that I *could* talk to a dovecot server via webmail
but not with fetchmail. no matter which options I passed to it, it
always failed as "unknown user or wrong password), even if the
password and user name used by procmail were the SAME I used via
webmail.

On Sun, Oct 01, 2006 23:23:05 PM +0200, Michelle Konzack
(lin...@fr...) wrote:

> Am 2006-09-30 17:48:49, schrieb M. Fioretti:
> 
> > Being too clever for my own good, I have the home computer in such
> > a state, thanks to a lot of experiments, that I cannot install
> > other clients without a lot of work (my fault, yes). However, I
> > have the
> 
> ???
> 
> I see you are using mutt 1.5.9 so why not try
> 
>     imaps://you...@se...d

(me blushing...) because I was sure, in that moment, mutt couldn't do
it.  Please don't ask why I thought so, let's just say I wasn't
sleeping well in those weeks...

Anyway: after a few trials with mutt, which worked just fine, I had an
inspiration (for lack of a better word): I opened fetchmailrc,
canceled ALL the fetchmail "recipe" for downloading the messages and
rewrote it from scratch, just as it was before. After that, believe it
or not, everything worked.

The only way I can explain this is that some weird, non printing
character got mixed in the password and /or username strings someway.

I hope this helps others to avoid the same waste of time I had :-(

Ciao and thanks for your support,
					Marco Fioretti

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