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Timed out while authenticating with server

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Hello,

Very Rarely, I come across the error “Timed out while authenticating with server”. Is there a way to handle this error gracefully? Connection event imap.once('error', function(err) {}) does not help. I am on node 0.8.27 with node-imap 0.8.14. Error details are below.

Error: Timed out while authenticating with server
 at Object._onTimeout (/app/node_modules/imap/lib/Connection.js:137:17)
 at Timer.list.ontimeout (timers.js:101:19)

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Created 9 years ago
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chandnisonicommented, Nov 15, 2018

I am getting same error: Error: Timed out while authenticating with server at Object._onTimeout (/app/node_modules/imap/lib/Connection.js:137:17) at Timer.list.ontimeout (timers.js:101:19)

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mscdexcommented, Oct 24, 2014

If you’re re-using the same imap instance like that, you need to change imap.once('error', ...) to imap.on('error', ...) because otherwise. Same with imap.once('ready', ...).

However if you are seeing a ready event and it’s not authenticated, that’s a bug.