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Question:

what this error means?

Sep 14 '12 at 09:40

Can you please what this error means when trying to connect trough IMAP to a russian account?

System.Exception: Connecting to email admin@chilkatsoft.com encountered an exception ChilkatLog:
  Login:
    DllDate: Apr 14 2012
    UnlockPrefix: {unlock_prefix}
    Username: PDFtoWord:PDFtoWord$
    Architecture: Little Endian; 32-bit
    Language: .NET 4.0
    login: {a_specific_account}@mail.ru
    ConnectionType: Unencrypted TCP/IP
    loginResponse: aaab NO Command disabled. Please use STARTTLS first.
    Received failed login response from IMAP server
    rawResponse: aaab NO Command disabled. Please use STARTTLS first.

    Failed.
  --Login
--ChilkatLog

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Answer

It sounds like you need to enable starttls: http://www.chilkatsoft.com/refdoc/vcCkImapDoc.html#prop044

and an example http://www.example-code.com/vcpp/imap_starttls.asp