FW: [Dovecot] How to log POP3 events

[Cliff Hayes]

Ok, I think I have that figured out.

I made the following mods:

disable_plaintext_auth = no
pop3_uidl_format = %08Xu%08Xv

and it seems to work.

Now...about those enhanced logging capabilities.  As promised, I see the
enhanced logging.

What does TOP and RETR mean?  (I checked the manual first)

Cliff

-----Original Message-----
From: Cliff Hayes [mailto:chayes at afo.net]
Sent: Thursday, November 03, 2005 1:05 PM
To: Chris Wakelin
Subject: RE: [Dovecot] How to log POP3 events


Logs say (with enhanced debugging turned on):

Nov  3 12:58:38 sendmail dovecot: pop3-login: Login failed: Plaintext
authentication disabled

-----Original Message-----
From: dovecot-bounces at dovecot.org [mailto:dovecot-bounces at dovecot.org]On
Behalf Of Chris Wakelin
Sent: Thursday, November 03, 2005 12:56 PM
To: Cliff Hayes
Cc: dovecot at dovecot.org
Subject: Re: [Dovecot] How to log POP3 events


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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