dBeau
11-15-2008, 12:51 PM
After reading about all the trouble folks were having logging into their POP/IMAP accounts, I was relieved to find that mine worked fine. I'd been running an older version of the Courier IMAP server (courier-imap-3.0.3) but because I was having trouble with a different client, I decided to upgrade to courier-4.4.1. I was delighted to see that this fixed the problem I was trying to solve. Much to my surprise, however, both Email and k-9 on my android stopped working after the upgrade.
Now for the fun part. I ran tcpdump to watch the exchange between the client and server. The big difference between the clients that worked and the android clients was how they formated the LOGIN command. The working clients put quotes around the user name and password:
LOGIN "dbeau" "pass%word"instead of
LOGIN dbeau pass%wordSo the old server was fine without the quotes, the new server a bit pickier.
I have no idea if this is related to the problems that folks have been seeing, but for me, editing the account settings and putting quotes around both my username and password got me up and running again.
Now for the fun part. I ran tcpdump to watch the exchange between the client and server. The big difference between the clients that worked and the android clients was how they formated the LOGIN command. The working clients put quotes around the user name and password:
LOGIN "dbeau" "pass%word"instead of
LOGIN dbeau pass%wordSo the old server was fine without the quotes, the new server a bit pickier.
I have no idea if this is related to the problems that folks have been seeing, but for me, editing the account settings and putting quotes around both my username and password got me up and running again.