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 AG1tcgBtaXN0bGV0b2U=
DC: -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
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