dovecot - Jun 2011 - Problem accessing Dovecot mailing lists via IMAP

I recently tried to look at the Dovecot mailing lists through an 
already-configured IMAP profile, which had worked fine in the past.

But it failed saying that the authentication method was not supported.

http://www.dovecot.org/mailinglists.html says:

"You can get access to the IMAP archives by using *dovecot.org* as the 
hostname, *anonymous* as the username and an empty password. It's also 
possible to use ANONYMOUS authentication mechanism if your client 
supports it (few do)."

I noticed that my e-mail client was configured to use the server 
"imap.dovecot.org", so I changed it to "dovecot.org".

But it still complains that the authentication method is not supported.

I am using Thunderbird 3.1 over Windows 7 64-bit.

Thunderbird was configured for "Password, Transmitted insecurely" (and
this option was not working).

I have tried the other authentication options available in Thunderbird.

"Encrypted password": Does not work; same problem
"Kerberos / GSSAPI": Does not work; same problem
"NTLM": Does not work; same problem

Any ideas?

Bill

Am Dienstag, den 28.06.2011, 11:54 +0100 schrieb William
Blunn:
> 
> Any ideas? 
I guess its not working at the moment.
CAPABILITY says LOGINDISABLED and AUTH=ANONYMOUS.

If the client does not support this auth method, authentication is
denied because login is disabled and starttls or ssl to get AUTH PLAIN
or AUTH LOGIN is not enabled.

Guess configuration does not match the documentation.
At least it does not work for me too because my client does not support
AUTH ANONYMOUS.

Torsten
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On Tue, 2011-06-28 at 11:54 +0100, William Blunn wrote:
> I recently tried to look at the Dovecot mailing lists through an 
> already-configured IMAP profile, which had worked fine in the past.
Yeah, it was broken in two ways. Should be working in a few minutes,
hopefully :)