[MlMt] IMAP not working

[Aaron Falk]

On 25 Feb 2017, at 10:48, Benny Kjær Nielsen wrote:

> 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...

It did ask for a password.  I entered it each time.  I confirmed 
KeyChain Access has the right password and it appears the 
•••••••• is the right length in the dialog box.  Odd 
that is says ‘failed to retrieve password’ isn’t it?

>
>> 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/

Tried rolling back to release 5344.  Same behavior.


>
> 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’ll try it.  Where do I set this?

Thanks for the assist.

—aaron