IMAP error

Hi,

I am trying to setup a dovecot server on my laptop to serve my emails to emacs gnus. The emails are pulled from the mail server using isync into particular directories. I am using a Guix system.

The dovecot service is running. I can telnet into it with:

telnet localhost 143 Trying 127.0.0.1... Connected to localhost. Escape character is '^]'.

• OK [CAPABILITY IMAP4rev1 SASL-IR LOGIN-REFERRALS ID ENABLE IDLE LITERAL+ STARTTLS AUTH=PLAIN] Dovecot ready.

However if I then do:

b select inbox b BAD Error in IMAP command received by server

I have not logged in as I have not set any username or password. I assumed that access was open on localhost. Is this not correct ?

I am not sure how to check further. I have checked the configuration and it is pointing to my email directories, imap is enabled etc.

Thanks Roy.