[Dovecot] New install authentication probs (Solved)

[Pascal Volk]

On 04/01/2010 09:09 PM a.smith at ukgrid.net wrote:
> Hi Brian,
> 
>   yes sounds likely, I am attempting to authenticate using the text:
> LOGIN username password
> 
> and I always recieve the error:
> 
> LOGIN BAD Error in IMAP command received by server.
> 
> With zero logged to the debug log... With courier IMAP this works by  
> default, I guess by default it doesnt work with dovecot...

please stop top-posing.

The imap command you have used is syntactically wrong. Please have a
look at RFC 3501, section 6.2.3 (LOGIN Command)
<http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3501#section-6.2.3>

When courier supports violation of protocols/RFCs/STDs, please file a
bug against courier.


Regards,
Pascal
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