IMAP login failed

[Pau]

Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaargh!!!!!!!!

I could kill myself!!!!!!!!!!

It's all my fault!

I was using an old config file I wrote for protonmail, and since
protonmail requires a "bridge" which is closed source, I was using
hydroxide...

https://github.com/emersion/hydroxide

This MIT-licensed software converts your plain ascii protonmail
password into the API string that protonmail will require to let you
log in; it changes every time you login.

I wrote a script which was adding the converted password to the muttrc
file at the BOTTOM of the muttrc file, because it was easier to
add/delete a line there.

So... the password that I was writing at the top of the file, where I
define the IMAP properties of my onionmail account was overwritten by
that very last line from the old protonmail muttrc file I had used as
a template... Now I can login.

BTW SMTP requires SASL...

thanks, Kevin and Nathan!!!

Pau

On Sun, Sep 13, 2020 at 10:31 PM Kevin J. McCarthy <kevin at 8t8.us> wrote:
>
> On Sun, Sep 13, 2020 at 09:25:18PM +0200, Pau wrote:
> >I think this is the issue. That string I was referring to before is
> >not the password as defined in my muttrc file. Entering :set
> >?imap_pass displays that string,
>
> To make sure I understand you, :set ?imap_pass is displaying the same
> value that appeared in the debug log, not the actual password, correct?
>
> If that's the case, then mostly likely something else in your
> configuration is altering $imap_pass.  I would double check whether you
> are sourcing another file, or have an account-hook or something else
> going on.
>
> As Nathan noted, the value seems to be base64 encoded binary data.
> That might indicate you have done something like:
>    set imap_pass=`cat foo`
> somewhere else in your muttrc and directly read in the base64 data from
> some file.
>
> --
> Kevin J. McCarthy
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