Hello guys,
I'm trying to setup anonymous IMAP login on a bunch of Outlook clients, but it doesn't seems to work.
I'm using dovecot-0.99.14-r1, on a Gentoo Linux OS.
Using command line anonymous login, it's working just fine:
youri / # telnet localhost 143 Trying 127.0.0.1... Connected to localhost. Escape character is '^]'.
- OK dovecot ready. . CAPABILITY
- CAPABILITY IMAP4rev1 SORT THREAD=REFERENCES MULTIAPPEND UNSELECT LITERAL+ IDLE CHILDREN LISTEXT LIST-SUBSCRIBED NAMESPACE STARTTLS AUTH=PLAIN AUTH=ANONYMOUS . OK Capability completed. . AUTHENTICATE ANONYMOUS
. OK Logged in.
But with Outlook it's not working at all. I tried using no password, or just some random stream, it makes no difference.
The error I got in dovecot's logs are: Feb 07 12:31:16 Info: PAM: pam_authenticate(anonymous) failed: Authentication failure Feb 07 12:31:19 Info: PAM: pam_authenticate(anonymous) failed: Authentication failure Feb 07 12:31:28 Info: PAM: pam_authenticate(anonymous) failed: Authentication failure
My assumption is that Outlook doesn't provide anonymous IMAP support. Could someone confirm this ? Do you know if any workaround/anonymous plugin exist ?
Thanks !
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