Hi Holger,
   thank you for the very interesting and detailed info.

   Can you give some details on the next release of REBOL?
   Do you plan to support NTLM on proxies and/or IMAP?

   I'm posting the trace for completeness.

> One of two things: either your username or password are incorrect,
> or the server you are connecting to does not support any of the
> official IMAP authentication standards REBOL supports (LOGIN
> and CRAM-MD5), but only Microsoft-proprietary methods.

   Unfortunately the latter!

> Near the top of the Net-log output you should see a line such as
> 
> * OK [(some text) AUTH=CRAM-MD5 AUTH=LOGIN] hostname (some more text)
> 
> Check whether at least one of CRAM-MD5 or LOGIN is listed in the
> AUTH options. If not, and if the server only supports, say,
> AUTH=NTLM, then you will not be able to connect. You would have

>> trace/net on
>> p: open imap://mario_cassani:*********@ITALY51/inbox
URL Parse: mario_cassani ********* ITALY51 none none inbox
Net-log: ["Opening" "tcp" "for" "IMAP"]
Net-log: {* OK Microsoft Exchange IMAP4rev1 server version 5.5.2653.23
(ITALY51) ready}
Net-log: "A1 CAPABILITY"
Net-log: {* CAPABILITY IMAP4 IMAP4rev1 IDLE LITERAL+ LOGIN-REFERRALS
MAILBOX-REFERRALS NAMESPACE AUTH=NTLM}
Net-log: "A1 OK CAPABILITY completed."
Net-log: "A2 LOGIN mario_cassani *********"
Net-log: "A2 NO You do not have permission to log on."
** User Error: No authentication method available
** Near: p: open imap://mario_cassani:*********@ITALY51/inbox
>>

> to contact your sysadmin and ask them to enable standard 
> authentication
> protocols in the IMAP server. CRAM-MD5 is at least as secure 
> as anything
> ever coming out of Microsoft, so sysadmin really have no reason not to
> allow it.

   There was no reason to close POP3 too, on a mailserver accepting
users only from the intranet! Well, worth trying to ask...

    Zaijian
     Mario
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