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Re: Fetchmail and NTLM configuration



Andy Bastien wrote:
> You might not even need to use NTLM to access the server, as Exchange
> servers accept plaintext authentication by default.  If your NT account
> is the primary account for the mailbox, try just using your username
> and password or domain/username and password.  IMAP is more
> complicated than POP3, but you can telnet in on port 143 to test your
> username and password:
> 
> frodo:~$telnet mail.foobar.com 143
> Trying 10.10.10.10...
> Connected to 10.10.10.10.
> Escape character is '^]'.
> * OK Microsoft Exchange IMAP4rev1 server version 5.5.2650.23 (MAILSERVER) ready
> a001 login username password
> a001 OK LOGIN completed.
> a002 logout
> * BYE Microsoft Exchange IMAP4rev1 server version 5.5.2650.23 signing off
> a002 OK LOGOUT completed.
> Connection closed by foreign host.
> frodo:~$


Telnetting into the port worked, but that doesn't match the log given my
fetchmail. Fetchmail has a lot of strange stuff going across the wire
according to the -v log. How do I configure fetchmail to use imap
plaintext?



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