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Logon failure: unknown user name or bad password... ?Authenticator class?

843830Oct 5 2005 — edited Oct 10 2005
I'm connecting to a MS Exchange server (internally) but I'm getting the following error:
........Non SSL........
POP3: connecting to host "xxxx.xxx.com", port 110
S: +OK Microsoft Exchange POP3 server version 5.5.2658.25 ready
C: USER xxxx.xxxxx@xxx.com
S: +OK
C: PASS 
S: -ERR Logon failure: unknown user name or bad password.
C: QUIT
S: +OK Microsoft Exchange POP3 server version 5.5.2658.25 signing off

test2 :: javax.mail.AuthenticationFailedException: Logon failure: unknown user name or bad password.
I can get my email using Outlook because I don't have to provide a password to connect. So I left it blank in my program but I still can't
login. Does this mean that I need to use the authenticator class?

Here's the code I'm using to connect:
public class ListMailSubjectLines
 	{
 	private static void ListMailSubjectsLines()
 		{
 		try
 			{
			Properties pop3Props = new Properties();	
  			Session session = null;
  			Store store = null;
  			
  			
			pop3Props.put("mail.pop3.host","xxxx.xxx.com");
			pop3Props.put("mail.user","xxxxx.xxx@xxx.com");
			pop3Props.setProperty("mail.passwd","");
			
			//	String host = "";
			//	String username = "";
			//	String password = "";

  			if((pop3Props.getProperty("mail.pop3.ssl") != null) && (pop3Props.getProperty("mail.pop3.ssl").equalsIgnoreCase("true")))
		  		{
				System.out.println("........SSL........");
   				String SSL_FACTORY = "javax.net.ssl.SSLSocketFactory";
   				pop3Props.setProperty("mail.pop3.socketFactory.class", SSL_FACTORY);
   				pop3Props.setProperty("mail.pop3.socketFactory.fallback", "false");
   				String portStr = ((pop3Props.getProperty("mail.pop3.port") != null) ? pop3Props.getProperty("mail.pop3.port") : "110");
   				pop3Props.setProperty("mail.pop3.port",  portStr);
   				pop3Props.setProperty("mail.pop3.socketFactory.port", portStr);
   				URLName url = new URLName("pop3://"+pop3Props.getProperty("mail.user")+":"+pop3Props.getProperty("mail.passwd")+"@"+pop3Props.getProperty("mail.host")+":"+pop3Props.getProperty("mail.pop3.port"));
   				session = Session.getInstance(pop3Props, null);
   				store = new POP3SSLStore(session, url);
  				}
  			else
	  			{
	  			System.out.println("........Non SSL........");
   				session = Session.getInstance(pop3Props, null);
   				store = session.getStore("pop3");
  				}
session.setDebug(true);

 			store.connect(pop3Props.getProperty("mail.host"), pop3Props.getProperty("mail.user"), pop3Props.getProperty("mail.passwd"));
  			//store.connect(host, username, password);
	  		Folder folder = store.getFolder("INBOX");
  			folder.open(Folder.READ_WRITE);
	  		Message[] Msgs = folder.getMessages();
  			for(int i = 0; i < Msgs.length; i++)
	  			{
    			System.out.println(Msgs.getSubject());
}
folder.close(true);
store.close();
System.out.println(Msgs[0].getSubject() + "test");
}
catch(NoSuchProviderException ec)
{
System.out.println("test1");
}
catch(MessagingException em)
{
System.out.println("\ntest2 :: " + em);
}
}
public static void main( String args[] )
{
ListMailSubjectsLines();
}
}

Thanks,
ls6
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