[Dovecot] POP3 -ERR Authentication failed.

[Pascal Volk]

On 06/22/2009 02:22 AM Tariq Ismail Dalvi wrote:
> Hello guys
> 
> I am having problem of pop3 with my mail server I am using postfix-2.3.3
> and Dovecot v1.0.7 when i telnet localhost or xyz.net i get following
> output
> 
> [root at dalvis ~]# telnet mail.xyz.net 110
> Trying 192.168.12.14...
> Connected to mail.xyz.net (192.168.12.14).
> Escape character is '^]'.
> +OK Dovecot ready.
> user johne at xyz.net
> +OK
> pass 768tidzx
> -ERR Authentication failed.
> Connection closed by foreign host.
> 
> and my maillog shows
> 
> Jun 21 19:25:20 localhost dovecot: pop3-login: Aborted login:
> user=<johne at xyz.net>, method=PLAIN, rip=::ffff:192.168.12.14,
> lip=::ffff:192.168.12.14, secured
> 
> my dovecot.conf is as follow:-
> 
> # Remove pop3 things if you don't want them
> protocols = imap imaps pop3 pop3s
> 
> # It's nice to have separate log files for Dovecot. You could do this
> # by changing syslog configuration also, but this is easier.
> log_path = /var/log/dovecot.log
> info_log_path = /var/log/dovecot-info.log
> 
> # Disable SSL for now.
> ssl_disable = yes
> disable_plaintext_auth = no
> 
> # We're using Maildir format
> mail_location = maildir:~/Maildir
> 
> # If you're using POP3, you'll need this:
> pop3_uidl_format = %08Xu%08Xv
> 
> # Optimizations:
> dotlock_use_excl=yes
> maildir_copy_with_hardlinks=yes
> 
> # Authentication configuration:
> auth_verbose = yes
> 
> auth default {
>   mechanisms = plain
>   passdb passwd-file {
>     args = /etc/dovecot/passwd
>   }
>   userdb static {
>     args = uid=vmail gid=vmail home=/var/mail/vmail/%d/%u
>   }
> }
> 
> 
> I shall highly appreciate if anyone shall have a look at it and
> let me know what i am doing wrong.
> 
> Thank you

In this case <http://wiki.dovecot.org/WhyDoesItNotWork> will be a good
start point.
If you can't fix the problem, please provide the output from
`dovecot -n` and the relevant lines from your logs.


Regards,
Pascal
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