Re: [fetchmail-users] Authentication failure against an ssl-enabled MS-Exchange server

[Charlie A. <C.A...@la...>]

Matthias Andree wrote:
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> For the nonce, you can try playing with the --auth option. For instance,  
> since you're using ssl, you could try adding "--sslcertck --auth password" 
> on the command line (without the quotes) and see if that helps.
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Hi Matthius (/all),
Thanks for looking into this. FYI:
> fetchmail --sslcertck --auth password --nodetach -vvv --nosyslog 
returns . . . 
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fetchmail: 6.3.11 querying owa.latrobe.edu.au (protocol IMAP) at Tue 18 Aug
2009 11:40:53 EST: poll started
fetchmail: Trying to connect to 131.172.7.36/993...connected.
fetchmail: Issuer Organization: Entrust, Inc.
fetchmail: Issuer CommonName: Entrust Certification Authority - L1B
fetchmail: Server CommonName: owa.latrobe.edu.au
fetchmail: Subject Alternative Name: owa.latrobe.edu.au
fetchmail: Subject Alternative Name: autodiscover.latrobe.edu.au
fetchmail: Subject Alternative Name: autodiscover.ltu.edu.au
fetchmail: Subject Alternative Name: htcas1.ltu.edu.au
fetchmail: Subject Alternative Name: htcas2.ltu.edu.au
fetchmail: Subject Alternative Name: htcas3dr.ltu.edu.au
fetchmail: Subject Alternative Name: sip.latrobe.edu.au
fetchmail: owa.latrobe.edu.au key fingerprint:
A8:1F:A4:F2:E5:55:EE:DF:AB:B3:3C:EC:3C:AA:33:52
fetchmail: owa.latrobe.edu.au fingerprints match.
fetchmail: IMAP< * OK The Microsoft Exchange IMAP4 service is ready.
fetchmail: IMAP> A0001 CAPABILITY
fetchmail: IMAP< * CAPABILITY IMAP4 IMAP4rev1 AUTH=NTLM AUTH=GSSAPI AUTH=PLAIN
IDLE NAMESPACE LITERAL+
fetchmail: IMAP< A0001 OK CAPABILITY completed.
fetchmail: Protocol identified as IMAP4 rev 1
fetchmail: IMAP> A0002 LOGIN "<username>"*
fetchmail: Authorization failure on <username>@owa.latrobe.edu.au
fetchmail: IMAP< A0002 NO LOGIN failed.
fetchmail: IMAP> A0003 *
fetchmail: IMAP> A0004 LOGOUT
fetchmail: IMAP< A0003 BAD Command Error. 12
fetchmail: IMAP< * BYE Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 IMAP4 server signing
off.
fetchmail: IMAP< A0004 OK LOGOUT completed.
fetchmail: 6.3.11 querying owa.latrobe.edu.au (protocol IMAP) at Tue 18 Aug
2009 11:40:54 EST: poll completed
fetchmail: Query status=3 (AUTHFAIL)
fetchmail: normal termination, status 3
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Retrieval via POP3s is fine (=change IMAP port 993 ---> POP3 port 995 in .fetchmailrc)

Thanks again,

--Charlie Ambrose