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

[Peter v. N. <ma...@pe...>]

Hi Matthias,

I got it working by re-configuring fetchmail with the --with-ssl option. Just dropped a blog article on this subject for the benefit of others
http://www.petervannes.nl/files/95dd386524c1ee3647da739d455a2c70-51.php


Met vriendelijke groet/With kind regards

Peter van Nes
Mobile +31 652 694 792 | Fax +31 84 747 6999
    


 

On 7 jan. 2013, at 19:22, Matthias Andree <mat...@gm...> wrote:

> Am 06.01.2013 22:39, schrieb Peter van Nes:
> 
>> 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" *
> 
> Peter,
> 
> it seems you have found a bug, and also may have misconfigured fetchmail
> when compiling it.
> 
> Exchange has advertised LOGINDISABLED, so fetchmail must not be trying
> LOGIN.
> 
> Exchange has also advertised STARTTLS, but fetchmail is not using it -
> have you run ./configure with the --with-ssl option? I suppose not;
> fetchmail -V|head -n1 will show it, there should be +SSL somewhere.
> 
> If fetchmail were to use and succeed with STARTTLS, Exchange would
> likely offer LOGIN through the secure channel so you would no longer get
> BAD.
> 
> Hope that helps.
> 
> Best regards,
> Matthias
> 
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