Re: [Classpathx-javamail] EOFException when accessing IMAP store

[Chris Burdess]

alok vaidya wrote:
> I am constantly getting an EOFException when I am attempting
> "store.connect()". The protocol is IMAP, the provider is from GNU.
> 
> Till recently everything was going fine when I was using the IMAP provider
> supplemented by Sun. I could send messages and receive them. Now I need to
> use the Gnu Mbox format for storing messages, so I have included the mail
> JAR from GNU. Now it has automatically switched the provider to
> *gnu.mail.providers.imap.
> *Firstly I do not know the reason for this as I could have as well continued
> to use the provider given by Sun and used only the Mbox provider from GNU
> (do not know if I am missing something here), secondly it constantly gives
> me an EOFException.
> I have put a trace of the exception here for reference:
> javax.mail.MessagingException;
>  nested exception is:
> java.io.EOFException
> at gnu.mail.providers.imap.IMAPStore.protocolConnect(IMAPStore.java:245)
> at javax.mail.Service.connect(Service.java:291)
> at javax.mail.Service.connect(Service.java:172)
> at com.alok.examples.MailTest.main(MailTest.java:103)
> Caused by: java.io.EOFException
> at gnu.inet.imap.IMAPConnection.readResponse(IMAPConnection.java:361)
> at gnu.inet.imap.IMAPConnection.starttls(IMAPConnection.java:599)
> at gnu.inet.imap.IMAPConnection.starttls(IMAPConnection.java:577)
> at gnu.mail.providers.imap.IMAPStore.protocolConnect(IMAPStore.java:149)
> ... 3 more

Well it seems that the server is closing the connection prematurely. Perhaps 
the server is advertising STARTTLS capability but doesn't actually support it 
or something?

I would call Session.setDebug(true) to follow the protocol trace to start with.
-- 
Chris Burdess