[Dovecot] pop3 authentication failure - password mismatch

Timo Sirainen tss at iki.fi
Fri Jul 22 22:09:29 EEST 2005


On Fri, 2005-07-22 at 11:44 -0700, James Sun wrote:
> Jul 22 18:28:18 hsiufen dovecot: auth(default):
> passwd(jam,24.6.106.170): password mismatch
..
> auth default {
>   mechanisms = plain
>   passdb = passwd
>   userdb = passwd
>   user = root
> }

Are you sure you're using passwd passdb? Nowadays it only works with
BSDs. Maybe you were using pam before?

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