[Dovecot] sending of password did not succeed

[Steffen Kaiser]

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On Thu, 28 Feb 2013, Peter Sparkes wrote:

> Exim4 is working and mail is being delivered to the mailboxes - /home/
> didm.co.uk/peter/Maildir/new etc
>
> When I try to download emails to my I get
>
> "sending of password did not succeed, Mail server
> mail.didm.co.ukresponded:Authentication failed"
>
> and the server Dovecot error log "utime(/home/didm.co.uk/peter/Maildir/tmp)
> failed: Permission denied" etc

Hmm, are you sure, that the Dovecot log message is related to the login 
attempt?

Can you check how many login/imap/pop3 connections there are for user 
"peter"?

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Steffen Kaiser
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