I just wasted my entire day fighting an issue I thought was a courier-imap or courier-imap-ssl 4.10 authentication issue in Debian.

It turns out it was a Gamin package error. If I killed the Gamin process I could temporarily log back in.

My fix? Uninstall Gamin and then ‘apt-get autoremove’. This will likely remove all your imap packages too (good).

Then install Fam (apt-get intall fam), then reinstall imap (apt-get install courier-imap-ssl). Things should return to normal.

Thanks Gamin, for screwing me out of a Sunday. Turd.

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Filed under: Uncategorized - @ August 19, 2012 8:35 pm

Tags: apt-get, authentication, courier, debian, failed, fam, gamin, imap, imap-ssl, linux, password, ssl