dovecot - Jul 2003 - dovecot.procontrol.fi anonymous access fails?

Hi,

just started using dovecot on FreeBSD. Nice and easy to configure :-)

I then wanted to browse the dovecot mailing list, so, 
according to http://dovecot.procontrol.fi/mailinglists.html:

    IMAP archives available from dovecot.procontrol.fi, either use
    ANONYMOUS authentication or give anonymous as username and empty
    password.

I was using a patched sylpheed that doesn't support ANONYMOUS
authentication, so I gave anonymous as username and empty password,
but it failed as shown in the following trace:

1 CAPABILITY
* OK dovecot ready.
* CAPABILITY IMAP4rev1 SORT THREAD=REFERENCES MULTIAPPEND UNSELECT LITERAL+ IDLE
CHILDREN LISTEXT LIST-SUBSCRIBED AUTH=PLAIN AUTH=ANONYMOUS
1 OK Capability completed.
2 LOGIN anonymous 
2 BAD Error in IMAP command received by server.
3 LOGOUT
* BYE Logging out
3 OK Logout completed.

Anyway, I also tried a plain telnet and it failed in the same way.
what's wrong?

thanks
marco

On Sunday, Jul 13, 2003, at 18:47 Europe/Helsinki, Marco Molteni wrote:
> I was using a patched sylpheed that doesn't support ANONYMOUS
> authentication, so I gave anonymous as username and empty password,
> but it failed as shown in the following trace:
>
> 2 LOGIN anonymous
> 2 BAD Error in IMAP command received by server.
Sylpheed is buggy and doesn't give password parameter. It should have 
said:

2 login anonymous ""

Hi List,

When I tried connecting using MS outlook express, it is complaining about
the fact that the folders aren't subscribed. If they are not subscribed, you
cannot read them... :(

I did read through the archives using mutt though, that worked quite well!
:)


Regards,


Maikel Verheijen.

Ps: did not try it lately, maybe Timo changed the subscription status of the
folders in between....
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Timo Sirainen [mailto:tss at iki.fi] 
> Sent: Sunday, July 13, 2003 6:10 PM
> To: dovecot at procontrol.fi
> Subject: Re: [Dovecot] dovecot.procontrol.fi anonymous access fails?
> 
> 
> On Sunday, Jul 13, 2003, at 18:47 Europe/Helsinki, Marco 
> Molteni wrote:
> 
> > I was using a patched sylpheed that doesn't support ANONYMOUS 
> > authentication, so I gave anonymous as username and empty password, 
> > but it failed as shown in the following trace:
> >
> > 2 LOGIN anonymous
> > 2 BAD Error in IMAP command received by server.
> 
> Sylpheed is buggy and doesn't give password parameter. It should have 
> said:
> 
> 2 login anonymous ""
> 
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On Mon, Jul 14, 2003 at 09:23:04AM +0200, Maikel Verheijen
wrote:
> When I tried connecting using MS outlook express, it is complaining about
> the fact that the folders aren't subscribed. If they are not
subscribed, you
> cannot read them... :(
OK, added the subscriptions now.

> On Mon, Jul 14, 2003 at 09:23:04AM +0200, Maikel Verheijen wrote:
> > When I tried connecting using MS outlook express, it is complaining 
> > about the fact that the folders aren't subscribed. If they are not
> > subscribed, you cannot read them... :(
> 
> OK, added the subscriptions now.
Ah great! :)


Thanks,


Maikel Verheijen.
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