On Wed, Sep 19, 2007 at 10:12:37AM +0200, Matthias Apitz wrote: > El día Wednesday, September 19, 2007 a las 09:02:55AM +0100, Chris G escribió: > > > Our MS Exchange server now allows IMAP connections and I want to use > > mutt to access it. I have used mutt before with IMAP so know the > > basics. > > > > However I'm having trouble getting it to connect to the Exchange > > server, so :- > > > > Are there any special gotchas when using mutt with Exchange? > > > > Is there any way to log the connection process so I can see where > > it's failing? > > > > Any other ideas? > > > > I'm pretty sure I am now set up as an IMAP user on the Exchange server > > as last week I was getting an error (using Thunderbird) that was > > saying that I didn't exist as a user. Now I just get a failed login > > which implies that I have my password wrong but my password works on > > the Exchange webmail login and (as far as I know) that is the same > > password. > > Hi Chris, > > You could use 'fetchmail' to connect to the IMAP port and watch > the IMAP dialog in the log of fetchmail. Create a file ~/.fetchmailrc > with these lines: > > set logfile /tmp/fetchmail.log > defaults > timeout 30 > keep > fetchall > poll your-imap-Exchange-server-name-here protocol IMAP > username your-login-name > password yout-password > > Then run > > $ fetchmail -vv > > and check the dialog in the log file. > The output actually comes out on STDOUT but that's not a problem.
Yes, it's shown up what seems to be the error, it says "account currently disabled", they obviously haven't turned me on yet. Thank you! -- Chris Green
