Re: Rmail with movemail.

[Jean Louis]

I am forwarding it to GNU Mailutils mailing list.

* Alexandros Prekates <aprekates@posteo.net> [2021-05-03 13:15]:
> On Mon, 3 May 2021 02:19:47 +0300
> Jean Louis <bugs@gnu.support> wrote:
> 
> > * Alexandros Prekates <aprekates@posteo.net> [2021-05-03 01:31]:
> > > I cant make Mailutils movemail to work with my imap remote mailbox.
> > > 
> > > Can Rmail use other alternatives , eg : fetchmail ?  
> > 
> > Yes, it can use.
> > 
> > Please post your movemail settings. I will try to re-construct from
> > Lisp, how I use movemail:
> > 
> > $ timeout 10m /usr/bin/movemail -m v
> > 'imaps://USERNAME:PASSWORD@IMAP.EXAMPLE.COM:994/INBOX' "~/Maildir/"
> > 
> > Is that how you use it?
> > 
> > 
> 
> Posteo gives:
> incoming mail server (IMAP):
> With STARTTLS using port 143, or
> with SSL/TLS encryption using port 993
> 
> 
> $ cd ~
> $ mkdir -p ~/mailFromMovemail/{cur,new,tmp}
> 
> I have tried:
> 
> $  movemail -m -vv  \
>    'imaps://foo:***@posteo.eu:993/INBOX' \
>    "~/mailFromMovemail"
> 
> I tried to add my full username but i read that
> instead of foo@posteo.eu i should use foo%40posteo.eu
> 
> $ movemail --debug-level='mailbox.prot' -p -vvv \
>  'imaps://foo%40posteo.eu:***@posteo.de:993/INBOX' \
>    "~/mailFromMovemail"
> movemail: Reading user ticket file /home/chomwitt/.mu-tickets
> movemail: Retrieved and set ticket: 0
> movemail: opening mailbox imaps://foo%40posteo.eu@posteo.de:993/INBOX
> movemail: mailbox `imaps://foo%40posteo.eu@posteo.de:993/INBOX':
> cannot open: Input/output error
> 
> 
> and if i try imap and not imaps.
> 
> $ timeout 10m movemail --debug-level='mailbox.prot'  -p -vvv \
>   'imap://foo%40posteo.eu:***s@posteo.de/INBOX' \
>     "~/mailFromMovemail"
> movemail: Reading user ticket file /home/chomwitt/.mu-tickets
> movemail: Retrieved and set ticket: 0
> movemail: opening mailbox imap://foo%40posteo.eu:***@posteo.de/INBOX
> movemail: S: * OK [CAPABILITY IMAP4rev1 LITERAL+ SASL-IR
> LOGIN-REFERRALS ID ENABLE IDLE STARTTLS LOGINDISABLED] Dovecot ready.
> movemail: C: 01 CAPABILITY
> movemail: S: * CAPABILITY IMAP4rev1 LITERAL+ SASL-IR LOGIN-REFERRALS ID
> ENABLE IDLE STARTTLS LOGINDISABLED
> movemail: S: 01 OK Pre-login capabilities listed, post-login
> capabilities have more.
> movemail: C: 02 STARTTLS
> movemail: S: 02 OK Begin TLS negotiation now.
> movemail: C: 03 CAPABILITY
> movemail: mailbox `imap://foo%40posteo.eu:***@posteo.de/INBOX':
> cannot open: Authentication failed
> 
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-- 
Jean

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