Title: Mbsync and imap login problem | |
Author: Solène | |
Date: 17 May 2016 | |
Tags: solved email | |
Description: | |
I have not found any answer about this so I share my fixed. I wanted | |
to use mbsync with one IMAP server and encountered the following | |
error. | |
IMAP command 'AUTHENTICATE DIGEST-MD5' returned an error: NO | |
Authentication failed | |
A fix is to add the following to your ~/.mbsyncrc IMAPAccount | |
declaration. | |
AuthMechs LOGIN | |
Using LOGIN instead of DIGEST-MD5 is still secure **if** you have an | |
encrypted connection (IMAPS or STARTTLS). The login will be given | |
plaintext inside the connection. | |