IMAP Authentication weirdness

  • Resolved robmason38

    (@robmason38)


    10 years, 4 months ago

    Hi All – I have Postie working Ok and authenticating to my IMAP server (Dovecot). Problem is, it works one, and only once. Subsequent collections fail (debug at the bottom of this message).

    I have discovered that I can fix this by re-entering the mail account password in the Postie settings and re-saving the config! It seems as though Postie is forgetting the password after the first successful collection?

    The IMAP server in use is reliable and does not indicate any problems with other mail clients. Also, the old deprecated WordPress ‘post-by-email’ used to work like a charm with the same mail server.

    Any ideas? Timeout values too aggressive?

    PHP Warning: imap_open(): Couldn’t open stream {192.168.200.3:143/service=imap/notls/novalidate-cert} in /var/www/bbsac/wp-content/plugins/postie/postieIMAP.php on line 89
    Postie [error]: imap_open failed: Can not authenticate to IMAP server: [AUTHENTICATIONFAILED] Authentication failed.
    Postie [error]: Mail Connection Time Out
    Postie [error]: Common Reasons: Server Down, Network Issue, Port/Protocol MisMatch
    Postie [error]: The Server said:
    PHP Warning: imap_expunge() expects parameter 1 to be resource, boolean given in /var/www/bbsac/wp-content/plugins/postie/postieIMAP.php on line 149
    PHP Warning: imap_close() expects parameter 1 to be resource, boolean given in /var/www/bbsac/wp-content/plugins/postie/postieIMAP.php on line 157

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  • Thread Starter robmason38

    (@robmason38)

    10 years, 4 months ago

    OK, I’ve identified that Postie, after the first config save, is overwriting the password where complex characters are included.

    Example Password:

    Post12!

    Postie is re-writing this to:

    post12

    So, it appears to be converting the password to lowercase and stripping symbols from the end AFTER the first collection.

    Bug??

    Thread Starter robmason38

    (@robmason38)

    10 years, 4 months ago

    …forgot to mention. I’m temporarily resolving this problem by using simple alpha-numeric passwords…

    But I still think there is a bug in there somewhere…

    Plugin Author Wayne Allen

    (@wayneallen-1)

    10 years, 4 months ago

    Recently I’ve noticed that Chrome has changed how it deals with auto-filling passwords. Are you using Chrome? have you noticed if the password field is being auto-filled?

    Postie never changes the value of the password field (that would be a strange feature) they just get passed to WordPress to save.

    Plugin Author Wayne Allen

    (@wayneallen-1)

    10 years, 4 months ago

    Also when you say that the password has been changed are you looking in the page or in the database?

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