pilerimport with IMAP shows A1 BAD STARTTLS required error

[Sagun Shrestha]

Hi Janos,

I am using piler 1.3.0 build 955 running on Debian environment. When I try to import email s from remote IMAP server, it comes with the following error:

pilerimport -i <remote server> -u <imap account> -p <password> -f <foldername> login failed, server reponse: A1 BAD STARTTLS required

I have tls_enable=1 on my piler.conf file and could see piler.pem file created under /usr/local/etc/piler directory.

I have been using pilerimport for archiving local ".eml" files and it has worked fine without any problems.

Can you please provide me some guidance as I am clueless ?

[Janos SUTO]

try adding -P 993, provided that you have imap ssl enabled on the server. The tls_enable option in piler.conf refers to the piler daemon, not pilerimport.

[Sagun Shrestha]

That worked without any errors! Thank you so much!

Just wondering if it is good idea to import emails from IMAP server which has almost 500,000 emails in a single inbox folder. Do you think pilerimport can handle that huge amount of emails in one go?

Can you please suggest me on this?

[Janos SUTO]

Well, I've created pilerimport to give you a tool to get legacy emails to the archive. So if you have 500k messages, then sure, go ahead, and import them. If you plan to use this method as a regular task to import new emails, then I think it's not a good idea, I'd rather use the piler daemon to do so.

[Sagun Shrestha]

Ok thanks! I will give it a go and let you know the outcome.

[Janos SUTO]

OK.