[Dovecot] How to log POP3 events

[Chris Wakelin]

Hmm, so what appears in the logs when you fail to authenticate? Have you
tried the "debug" POP client :) ?

telnet server 110

+OK University of Reading POP3 Server
USER chris
+OK
PASS chrispassword
+OK Logged in
LIST 1
+OK 1 1234
QUIT
+OK Logging out.

Chris

Cliff Hayes wrote:
> Yes, that's what I have.  I also found this:
> 
>   userdb prefetch {
>   }
> 
> I must have missed that, so I commented that out and still had the same
> problem.
> 
> There is also this
> 
>   user = root
> 
> in the auth default section.
> 
> Cliff
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: dovecot-bounces at dovecot.org [mailto:dovecot-bounces at dovecot.org]On
> Behalf Of Chris Wakelin
> Sent: Thursday, November 03, 2005 11:27 AM
> To: Cliff Hayes
> Cc: dovecot at dovecot.org
> Subject: Re: [Dovecot] How to log POP3 events
> 
> 
> So what do you have for passdb and userdb?
> 
> They should look something like
> 
> auth default {
>   mechanisms = plain
> 
> passdb shadow {
> }
> 
> userdb passwd {
> }
> 
> ...
> 
> 
> (Earlier versions of 1.0, e.g. 1.0-stable, have just
> 
> passdb shadow
> userdb passwd
> 
> )
> 
> Chris

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