On Thu, Jul 24 2025, Bartosz Kaczyński wrote: > Luis Henriques <[email protected]> writes: > >> Unfortunately, the imap interface has changed quite a bit with recent >> dovecot versions (2.4.1 here), and this doesn't work anymore. After >> spending quite some time trying to get a similar setup, I had to give up >> and started using the real (non-local) imap servers. >> > > Maybe this will help: https://functional.cafe/@nm0i/114837192220342061
Thank you, Bartosz. In fact, I had seen that link before (maybe from Sacha Chua Emacs News?). But it didn't really help. Looks like dovecot's 'imap' binary now expects to be able to always perform authentication, even when it's called as I used to (i.e. as a 'nnimap-shell-program'). This means that I would need to have the server fully configured and running to allow me to authenticate with it. At least this was my understanding, but I may be wrong, as I didn't really got to the bottom of it. I just gave up on trying to use dovecot. I may revisit that decision at some point but I don't see that happening in the short term as I'm still able to use Gnus for email and there are way more interesting things to learn :-) Cheers, -- Luís
