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Manually accessing GMail via IMAP

Fresh3 days ago
Mar 15, 20263920 views
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Problem

I'm trying to connect to gmail imap, but I am unable to execute any commands after login. I'm running to connect then, at which point it simply hangs with the connection open. I'm guessing gmail pushes you off to a node in a cluster after it authenticate me?

Error Output

openssl s_client -connect imap.gmail.com:993

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Fix for: Manually accessing GMail via IMAP

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I just ran into the same issue. Use the -crlf flag. Pre-login, Gmail's IMAP server is less picky about the newline characters, they can either be or , but after you login, Gmail's server only responds to lines ending with . According to the IMAP spe…

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