Re: [Evolution] Correct settings for AOL in USA

["Dr. John H. Lauterbach" <john lauterbachandassociates net>]

On Mon, 2018-08-20 at 16:32 +0200, Milan Crha via evolution-list wrote:

> On Mon, 2018-08-20 at 08:20 -0400, Dr. John H. Lauterbach wrote:
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> >
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> Here is what happened when I followed the debugging instructions:
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> ~$ CAMEL_DEBUG=impax:io evolution >& logfile
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> log file showed
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> 	Hi,
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> you've a typo in the command (supposing you copy&pasted it from the
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> terminal), it's not "impax", but "imapx", thus:
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>    $ CAMEL_DEBUG=imapx:io evolution >& logfile
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> You'll see plenty of output in the file, a raw communication between
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> the server and the evolution. It's nothing to be shared, thus be
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> careful before you send it anywhere. Especially take care of the lines
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> with LOGIN or AUTH commands, anything encoded around them (even not
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> readable for you) should be deleted from the log first. Then all the
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> other information you do not want to share. Of course, in your case,
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> the most interesting information is what command had been run before
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> the server returned BYE or NO or anything like that, which resulted in
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> the password prompt. Most likely at the end of the log, after LIST or
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> LSUB command, I guess.
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> Ideally have enabled only one IMAP account when running with the
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> logging, thus the output doesn't interleave.
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> 	Bye,
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> 	Milan
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Thank you, Milan. The problem here had nothing to do with evolution. The problem was that the user's AOL default was to bar "apps that use less secure sign in" Once I set that to allow such apps, evolution started working just fine.