[Dovecot] IMAP and SMTP Authentication

Seth Mattinen sethm at rollernet.us
Tue Oct 7 18:37:19 EEST 2008


Roderick A. Anderson wrote:
> I'm a bit further along but haven't figured out why Authentication is
> still failing.  I've tried a telnet to port 143 and openssl connection
> to 993.
> 
> The command I issued, per the debugging page on the wiki, is:
> 
>     a login info at aesoft-sbcs.com crap
> 
> Here is a snapshot from my logs (yup second try and blank lines to make
> it easier for me to read).
> 
> Oct  7 08:17:20 mx0 dovecot: auth(default): client in: AUTH     2 PLAIN 
> service=imap     secured lip=216.64.180.226      rip=66.193.34.88       
> lport=993       rport=65026 resp=AGluZm9AYWVzb2Z0LXNiY3MuY29tAGNyYXA=
> 
> Oct  7 08:17:20 mx0 dovecot: auth(default): passwd-file
> /var/mail/vhosts/aesoft-sbcs.com/passwd: Read 3 users
> 
> Oct  7 08:17:20 mx0 dovecot: auth(default):
> passwd-file(info at aesoft-sbcs.com,66.193.34.88): lookup:
> user=info at aesoft-sbcs.com file=/var/mail/vhosts/aesoft-sbcs.com/passwd
> 
> Oct  7 08:17:20 mx0 dovecot: auth(default):
> passwd-file(info at aesoft-sbcs.com,66.193.34.88): unknown user
> 
> Oct  7 08:17:22 mx0 dovecot: auth(default): client out: FAIL    2
> user=info at aesoft-sbcs.com
> 
> And here is the relevant line from    
> /var/mail/vhosts/aesoft-sbcs.com/passwd
> 
> info:{PLAIN}crap:5000:5000::/var/mail/vhosts/aesoft-sbcs.com/info
> 

The user is "info at aesoft-sbcs.com", not "info".

~Seth


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