Re: [fetchmail-users] Fetchmail fails with BAD Command received in invalid state after upgrade to 6.3.24

[Rob M. <rob...@gm...>]

On Sun, Jan 6, 2013 at 9:39 PM, Peter van Nes <ma...@pe...> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
>
> After the upgrade up Mac OS X 10.7 to 10.8 fetchmail disappeared. After installing fetchmail 6.3.24 i try to use fetchmail using the same .fetctmailrc file as before, but now get authorization errors.
> Specifically, it fails on the following poll from an account on an exchange 2010 server;
>
> defaults keep smtphost 127.0.0.1
> set syslog
> set daemon 60
> set no bouncemail
> set no spambounce
>
> poll mail.the-future-group.com proto imap port 143:
>         auth password user 'username' with password 'password' sslproto TLS1 smtpname my...@pe...
>
> When running fetchmail in debug ;
> fetchmail superuser$ /usr/local/bin/fetchmail -vvvv --nodetach -f /private/var/fetchmail/.fetchmailrc --nosyslog
>
> i get the following output ;
>
> Old UID list from mail.the-future-group.com: <empty>
> Scratch list of UIDs: <empty>
> fetchmail: starting fetchmail 6.3.24 daemon
> fetchmail: 6.3.24 querying mail.the-future-group.com (protocol IMAP) at Sun, 06 Jan 2013 22:14:55 +0100 (CET): poll started
> Trying to connect to 46.244.15.13/143...connected.
> fetchmail: IMAP< * OK The Microsoft Exchange IMAP4 service is ready.
> fetchmail: IMAP> A0001 CAPABILITY
> fetchmail: IMAP< * CAPABILITY IMAP4 IMAP4rev1 LOGINDISABLED STARTTLS UIDPLUS CHILDREN IDLE NAMESPACE LITERAL+
> fetchmail: IMAP< A0001 OK CAPABILITY completed.
> fetchmail: Protocol identified as IMAP4 rev 1
> fetchmail: IMAP> A0002 LOGIN "p.vannes" *
> fetchmail: IMAP< A0002 BAD Command received in Invalid state.

A Google search suggests the problem is that you either need to use
SSL or TLS - the Exchange administrator should be able to confirm
that. I suspect your previous configuration had that enabled by
default (possibly on the command line).

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