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Re: imap localhost: Unsupported authentication mechanism.

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On Friday, December 14, 2012 3:55:12 AM UTC-8, Thufir wrote:
> How do you login to localhost imap?
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> code:
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> require 'rubygems'
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> require 'net/imap'
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> imap = Net::IMAP.new('localhost')
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> imap.authenticate('LOGIN', 'thufir', 'password')
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> imap.examine('INBOX')
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> imap.search(["RECENT"]).each do |message_id|
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>   envelope = imap.fetch(message_id, "ENVELOPE")[0].attr["ENVELOPE"]
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>   puts "#{envelope.from[0].name}: \t#{envelope.subject}"
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> end
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> running the code:
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> thufir@dur:~/ruby$ 
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> thufir@dur:~/ruby$ ruby imap.rb 
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> /home/thufir/.rvm/rubies/ruby-1.9.3-p327/lib/ruby/1.9.1/net/imap.rb:1141:in `get_tagged_response':  Unsupported authentication mechanism. (Net::IMAP::NoResponseError)
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> 	from /home/thufir/.rvm/rubies/ruby-1.9.3-p327/lib/ruby/1.9.1/net/imap.rb:1195:in `block in send_command'
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> 	from /home/thufir/.rvm/rubies/ruby-1.9.3-p327/lib/ruby/1.9.1/monitor.rb:211:in `mon_synchronize'
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> 	from /home/thufir/.rvm/rubies/ruby-1.9.3-p327/lib/ruby/1.9.1/net/imap.rb:1177:in `send_command'
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> 	from /home/thufir/.rvm/rubies/ruby-1.9.3-p327/lib/ruby/1.9.1/net/imap.rb:402:in `authenticate'
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> 	from imap.rb:6:in `<main>'
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> thufir@dur:~/ruby$ 
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> I'm using dovecot-postfix and dovecot-imapd on Ubuntu 12.04.  Thunderbird connects to IMAP on localhost and reads fine with the above configuration (different password, of course).
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> The host is dur.bounceme.net of which bounceme.net is owned and operated by domains@no-ip.com, and which I've registered that FQDN host name.  It doesn't resolve to anything on DNS, it's just to have a FQDN.  I'm not sending nor receiving to the internet at large, everything is on localhost, aka dur.bounceme.net, and, of course, to re-iterate, thunderbird just connects to an IMAP server on localhost (dovecot-imapd) and works fine.
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> I don't see how it's an  Unsupported authentication mechanism. (Net::IMAP::NoResponseError) given that Thunderbird connects fine.
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> thanks,
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> Thufir

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