On 24 Feb 2017, at 19:12, Aaron Falk wrote:
I access IETF mailing lists via IMAP and it stopped working for me
around the time of the last software update. I’ve reset and
verified my password and tried anonymous access as well with no joy.
Access instructions are
[here](https://trac.tools.ietf.org/group/tools/trac/wiki/Imap). Is
anyone else seeing similar problems? I’m attaching the debug output
for both authenticated and anonymous access. Any hints for debugging?
Well, the logs are a good starting point.
Using authenticated login:
18:01:47 Retrieving password (keychain or user request)
18:01:50 C: A3 AUTHENTICATE PLAIN ••••••••••
18:01:50 S: A3 NO AUTHENTICATION has failed
18:01:50 Error: Server response: “A3 NO AUTHENTICATION has
failed”. Command attempted: “A3 AUTHENTICATE PLAIN
••••••••••”.
18:01:50 Retrieving password (keychain or user request)
18:01:51 Error: Failed to retrieve password for account.
You should have gotten a request for a new password here. Maybe that
didn't happen for some reason or it was just the output of the last
attempt for which you cancelled the requester...
Using anonymous access:
18:02:34 Reusing latest used password
18:02:34 C: A46 AUTHENTICATE PLAIN ••••••••••
18:02:34 S: A46 NO AUTHENTICATION has failed
This is busy-looping for some reason. I'll try to reproduce that. That's
definitely not supposed to happen.
I'm not sure anything changed in MailMate though. I guess that could
easily be determined by trying an older release:
http://updates.mailmate-app.com/archives/
I tried connecting to the account myself and it seems there is a problem
with `AUTHENTICATE PLAIN`. There's a debug variable with allows MailMate
to fall back to `LOGIN` when this happens. This seems to make it work
for me:
~~~
15:42:10 C: C0 AUTHENTICATE PLAIN ••••••••••
15:42:10 S: C0 NO AUTHENTICATION has failed
...
15:42:10 C: C1 LOGIN ••••••••••
15:42:10 S: C1 OK [CAPABILITY IMAP4rev1 UIDPLUS LITERAL+ UNSELECT
NAMESPACE SORT BINARY MULTIAPPEND THREAD=ORDEREDSUBJECT
THREAD=REFERENCES ESEARCH LIST-EXTENDED IDLE URLAUTH CATENATE CONDSTORE
QRESYNC ENABLE STARTTLS ACL RIGHTS=kxet QUOTA COMPRESS=DEFLATE SASL-IR
WITHIN CONTEXT=SEARCH SEARCHRES SPECIAL-USE MOVE] LOGIN Completed
~~~
It's enabled like this (don't worry about it mentioning Exchange):
defaults write com.freron.MailMate MmExchangeAuthPlainWorkaround -bool
YES
(I wonder if this is a server issue or if MailMate somehow does
something unexpected which is only a problem with very few servers.)
--
Benny
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