Setup fetchmail to pull from Exchange IMAP

Question

I'm trying to setup fetchmail to pull from my work's exchange server (2007) using imap. It seems to connect just fine but none of the authentication methods seem to work. I've tried ntlm and plain (it is over ssl) so far. Here is my config:

poll work.server.com proto imap username elarson password "secret" ssl

Any ideas on what could be going wrong or how to better configured my fetchmailrc?

Solution

Are you providing the username in the form of an email address? If not, give that a shot. That works for me on a test box, at least.

Comments

[elarson]

Another option is to use an imap gateway. I've tried DavMail which is an exchange gateway, but that didn't respond correctly to the imap search commands my client uses.

[elarson]

In fact I did try that as well to no avail. I don't think it even changed the error message. I should also point out that I'm able to connect with my email client (wanderlust in emacs) just fine as well as with offlineimap, so it is definitely doable. Also, offlineimap would work, but I've found it fails every once in a while, which is somewhat unacceptable.