On 30/03/2020 19:39 Roy Lemmon <roy@roylemmon.com> wrote:


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.



Hi!

You can use ANONYMOUS mechanism if you want to allow public access. Clients might get confused with no authentication at all.

But even then you need some user to access as

See https://doc.dovecot.org/configuration_manual/authentication/authentication_mechanisms/

and 

https://doc.dovecot.org/settings/core/#auth-anonymous-username 


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Aki Tuomi