There seems to be a protocol mismatch between eudora and dovecot when using pop. The login interchange with, for example, mozilla, is as follows: MO: [connects] DC: +OK dovecot ready. MO: CAPA DC: +OK DC: CAPA DC: TOP DC: USER DC: UIDL DC: RESP-CODES DC: STLS DC: SASL PLAIN DC: . MO: USER yyy DC: +OK MO: PASS xxxxxxxx DC: +OK Logged in. But with eudora, with apparently equivalent configuration, the sequence is as follows: EU: [connects] DC: +OK dovecot ready. EU: CAPA DC: +OK DC: CAPA DC: TOP DC: USER DC: UIDL DC: RESP-CODES DC: STLS DC: SASL PLAIN DC: . EU: auth PLAIN AG1tcgBtaXN0bGV0b2UDC: -ERR Unsupported authentication mechanism. At this point eudora reports an error back to the user, and the connection fails. Can anyone shed any light on this? Is it just that there is an incompatibility in how eudora and dovecot view the protocol? Or is there some configuration option I need to tweak to make things work? Thanks for any help. Kent -- Kent Crispin kent at songbird.com SIP: 81202 at fwd.pulver.com
On Sun, Nov 14, 2004 at 09:29:54PM -0800, kent crispin wrote:> At this point eudora reports an error back to the user, and the > connection fails. Can anyone shed any light on this? Is it just that > there is an incompatibility in how eudora and dovecot view the > protocol? Or is there some configuration option I need to tweak to > make things work?I didn't spend the time to figure out *why* it was breaking, but I found a solution: http://www.eudora.com/techsupport/kb/2434hq.html -Ben -- Ben Beuchler There is no spoon. insyte at emt-p.org -- The Matrix
On 15.11.2004, at 07:29, kent crispin wrote:> At this point eudora reports an error back to the user, and the > connection fails. Can anyone shed any light on this? Is it just that > there is an incompatibility in how eudora and dovecot view the > protocol? Or is there some configuration option I need to tweak to > make things work?This is a bug in Dovecot 0.99.x. EIther try 1.0-tests or another POP3 server. Or change the code not to advertise SASL PLAIN capability. -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: PGP.sig Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 186 bytes Desc: This is a digitally signed message part URL: <http://dovecot.org/pipermail/dovecot/attachments/20041116/bceca982/attachment-0001.bin>