Hi thanks for your quick reply.
Let me go down to your questions:
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Yes, TLS is checked. I kept all settings, I just changed the port numbers according to the link AOL sent me.
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Yes, I did set authentication to different settings. If I switch the settings, I am getting an error saying "Authentication error" and the login window appears asking me to re-enter password, and then it will show an erorr saying "wrong method"
It was set to "Auto", if I set it back to "Auto", the Opera Mail clients ends up in a loop being stuck at "Authenticating" , I have kept it trying for 20 minutes but it stays at "Not Responding" in the window title.
The only way to correct this is, blocking the whole internet connection so Opera Mail will fail connecting and just a yellow exclamation mark will apear on the status bar, and then disabling the option "Check for new mails when checking manually and "check for new mails automatically every 5 mins"
This "being stuck" only happened after the 3rd try Opera Mail could not connect yesterday evening.
- I tried checking the log and enabled it, find the log at the end of this post.
Here are my settings from the config file thought, and THE EXACT setting I use in the Mail app of iOS 11 (iPhone7 Plus too).
==== Logging started ====
25/10-2017 20:14:28 IMAP#1/1: Connecting...
25/10-2017 20:14:29 IMAP#1/1 IN {}: * OK IMAP4 ready
25/10-2017 20:14:29 IMAP#1/1 OUT {}: 0000 CAPABILITY
25/10-2017 20:14:30 IMAP#1/1 IN {}: * CAPABILITY IMAP4rev1 UIDPLUS ID NAMESPACE LOGIN-REFERRALS IDLE STARTTLS AUTH=XAOL-UAS-MB AUTH=XOAUTH2
0000 OK completed
25/10-2017 20:14:30 IMAP#1/1 OUT {}: 0001 ID ("name" "Opera Mail" "version" "1.0" "vendor" "Opera Software ASA" "os" "Win32")
25/10-2017 20:14:30 IMAP#1/1 IN {}: * ID nil
0001 OK completed
25/10-2017 20:14:30 IMAP#1/1 OUT {}: [command contains password]
25/10-2017 20:14:31 IMAP#1/1 IN {}: * CAPABILITY IMAP4rev1 APPENDLIMIT=36700160 BINARY CATENATE CHILDREN ESEARCH ID IDLE LITERAL+ LOGIN-REFERRALS NAMESPACE QUOTA SASL-IR UIDPLUS UNSELECT WITHIN XAOL-MOVE XAOL.SPAM.REASON XAOL-MSGID XAPPLEPUSHSERVICE MOVE REPLACE
0002 OK LOGIN completed
25/10-2017 20:14:31 IMAP#1/1 OUT {}: 0003 LSUB "" "*"
25/10-2017 20:14:31 IMAP#1/1 IN {}: * LSUB (\HasNoChildren) "/" "Inbox - nafcomaim[at]aim.com"
- LSUB (\HasNoChildren) "/" "Saved"
- LSUB (\HasNoChildren \Trash) "/" "Trash"
- LSUB (\HasNoChildren) "/" "Inbox - nafcom[at]wow.com"
- LSUB (\HasNoChildren) "/" "Notes"
- LSUB (\HasNoChildren \Noinferiors \Junk) "/" "Spam"
- LSUB (\HasNoChildren \Drafts) "/" "Drafts"
- LSUB (\HasNoChildren) "/" "INBOX"
- LSUB (\HasNoChildren) "/" "SavedIMs"
- LSUB (\HasNoChildren \Sent) "/" "Sent"
0003 OK LSUB completed
====================================================
my nafcom[at]games.com address:
==== Logging started ====
25/10-2017 20:14:28 IMAP#1/1: Connecting...
25/10-2017 20:14:30 IMAP#1/1 IN {}: * OK IMAP4 ready
25/10-2017 20:14:30 IMAP#1/1 OUT {}: 0000 CAPABILITY
25/10-2017 20:14:30 IMAP#1/1 IN {}: * CAPABILITY IMAP4rev1 UIDPLUS ID NAMESPACE LOGIN-REFERRALS IDLE STARTTLS AUTH=XAOL-UAS-MB AUTH=XOAUTH2
0000 OK completed
25/10-2017 20:14:30 IMAP#1/1 OUT {}: 0001 ID ("name" "Opera Mail" "version" "1.0" "vendor" "Opera Software ASA" "os" "Win32")
25/10-2017 20:14:31 IMAP#1/1 IN {}: * ID nil
0001 OK completed
25/10-2017 20:14:31 IMAP#1/1 OUT {}: [command contains password]
==========================
Here is also a copy & paste of my account settings in Opera Mail:
[Account5]
Incoming Log File=B:\winntold\account5_inlog.txt
Outgoing Log File=B:\winntold\account5_outlog.txt
Incoming Protocol=IMAP
Outgoing Protocol=SMTP
Charset=iso-8859-15
Personalization
Xface
Temporary=0
Category=
Incoming Port=993
Outgoing Port=465
Secure Connection In=1
Secure Connection Out=1
Secure Authentication=0
Incoming Authentication Method=31
Outgoing Authentication Method=31
Incoming Timeout=60
Outgoing Timeout=90
Remove From Server Delay Enabled=0
Remove From Server Delay=604800
Remove From Server Only If Marked As Read=0
Remove From Server Only If Complete Message=1
Initial Poll Delay=5
Poll Interval=300
Max Download Size=0
Purge Age=-1
Purge Size=-1
Download Bodies=1
Download Attachments=1
Leave On Server=0
Server Has Spam Filter=0
IMAP BODYSTRUCTURE support=1
IMAP IDLE support=1
Permanent Delete=1
Queue Outgoing=0
Send Queued After Check=0
Mark Read If Seen=1
Sound Enabled=0
Manual Check Enabled=1
Add Contact When Sending=1
Show Warning For Empty Subject=1
Account Name=nafcom[at]games.com
Incoming Servername=imap.aol.com
Incoming Username=nafcom[at]games.com
Outgoing Servername=smtp.aol.com
Outgoing Username=nafcom[at]games.com
Force Charset=0
Allow 8Bit Headers=0
Allow 8Bit Transfer=0
Allow Incoming QuotedString QP=1
Prefer HTML Composing=1
Real Name=Joerg Droege
Email=nafcom[at]games.com
Replyto=
Organization=
Signature File={Resources}signature52.txt
Sound File=
Reply=On %:Date:, %f wrote:
Followup
Forward=\n\n------- Forwarded message -------\nFrom: %:From:\nTo: %:To:\nCc: %:Cc:\nSubject: %:Subject:\nDate: %:Date:\n
Linelength=76
Remove Signature On Reply=1
Max QuoteDepth On Reply=-1
Max QuoteDepth On QuickReply=2
Auto CC=
Auto BCC=
Signature is HTML=0
Low bandwidth mode=0
Fetch Max Lines=100
Fetch Only Text=0
Default Direction=0
Default Store=2
[Account7]
Incoming Log File=B:\winntold\account7_inlog.txt
Outgoing Log File=B:\winntold\account7_outlog.txt
Incoming Protocol=IMAP
Outgoing Protocol=SMTP
Charset=iso-8859-15
Personalization
Xface
Temporary=0
Category=
Incoming Port=993
Outgoing Port=465
Secure Connection In=1
Secure Connection Out=1
Secure Authentication=0
Incoming Authentication Method=31
Outgoing Authentication Method=31
Incoming Timeout=60
Outgoing Timeout=90
Remove From Server Delay Enabled=0
Remove From Server Delay=604800
Remove From Server Only If Marked As Read=0
Remove From Server Only If Complete Message=1
Initial Poll Delay=5
Poll Interval=300
Max Download Size=0
Purge Age=-1
Purge Size=-1
Download Bodies=1
Download Attachments=1
Leave On Server=0
Server Has Spam Filter=0
IMAP BODYSTRUCTURE support=1
IMAP IDLE support=1
Permanent Delete=1
Queue Outgoing=0
Send Queued After Check=0
Mark Read If Seen=1
Sound Enabled=0
Manual Check Enabled=1
Add Contact When Sending=1
Show Warning For Empty Subject=1
Account Name=nafcomaim[at]aim.com
Incoming Servername=imap.aol.com
Incoming Username=nafcomaim
Outgoing Servername=smtp.aol.com
Outgoing Username=nafcomaim
Force Charset=0
Allow 8Bit Headers=0
Allow 8Bit Transfer=0
Allow Incoming QuotedString QP=1
Prefer HTML Composing=4
Real Name=Joerg Droege
Email=nafcomaim[at]aim.com
Replyto=
Organization=
Signature File={Resources}signature55.txt
Sound File=
Reply=On %:Date:, %f wrote:
Followup
Forward=\n\n------- Forwarded message -------\nFrom: %:From:\nTo: %:To:\nCc: %:Cc:\nSubject: %:Subject:\nDate: %:Date:\n
Linelength=76
Remove Signature On Reply=1
Max QuoteDepth On Reply=-1
Max QuoteDepth On QuickReply=2
Auto CC=
Auto BCC=
Signature is HTML=0
Low bandwidth mode=0
Fetch Max Lines=100
Fetch Only Text=0
Default Direction=0
Default Store=2
I have just replaced @ with [at] for web spider spam protection
Interestingly, appears logs are switched places despite I put in the correct path and filename to match the account numbering in the setting file.
Hope somebody can help me and find out what's wrong so I can use it again
thanks!
Interestingly btw: I tried to call AOL Support to hear what they say: They say network error on my system and wanted to charge me 149 USD for a network specialist to fix the problem for me.
However I did a telnet check on my netowrk with IMAP SMTP server URLs and their ports and traffic went through successful 