[Dovecot] fetchmail can't talk to dovecot

[Chris Cappuccio]

It looks like fetchmail is sending the wrong password....


M. Fioretti [mfioretti at mclink.it] wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I have dovecot q1.0-0_22.rc7 up and running on a server: I can read
> email from squirrelmail just fine. When I try to download email with
> fetchmail, however, I get the result below. Why is that happening? In
> dovecot.conf I have:
> 
> protocols = imap imaps pop3,
> 
> so why should pop3 or imap fail? Where should I look?
> 
> (I'll fix the certificates problem after I've managed to get in
> successfully with plain imap or pop3)
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> 	Marco
> 
> fetchmail: 6.3.2 querying my.server (protocol POP3) at Wed 27 Sep 2006 12:15:17 AM CEST: poll started
> fetchmail: POP3< +OK Dovecot ready.
> fetchmail: POP3> CAPA
> fetchmail: POP3< +OK
> fetchmail: POP3< CAPA
> fetchmail: POP3< TOP
> fetchmail: POP3< UIDL
> fetchmail: POP3< RESP-CODES
> fetchmail: POP3< PIPELINING
> fetchmail: POP3< STLS
> fetchmail: POP3< USER
> fetchmail: POP3< SASL PLAIN DIGEST-MD5
> fetchmail: POP3< .
> fetchmail: POP3> STLS
> fetchmail: POP3< +OK Begin TLS negotiation now.
> fetchmail: Issuer Organization: SomeOrganization
> fetchmail: Issuer CommonName: localhost.localdomain
> fetchmail: Server CommonName: localhost.localdomain
> fetchmail: Server CommonName mismatch: localhost.localdomain != my.server
> fetchmail: my.server key fingerprint: ...
> fetchmail: Server certificate verification error: self signed certificate
> fetchmail: POP3> CAPA
> fetchmail: POP3< +OK
> fetchmail: POP3< CAPA
> fetchmail: POP3< TOP
> fetchmail: POP3< UIDL
> fetchmail: POP3< RESP-CODES
> fetchmail: POP3< PIPELINING
> fetchmail: POP3< USER
> fetchmail: POP3< SASL PLAIN DIGEST-MD5
> fetchmail: POP3< .
> fetchmail: POP3> USER user_name
> fetchmail: POP3< +OK
> fetchmail: POP3> PASS *
> fetchmail: POP3< -ERR Authentication failed.
> fetchmail: Authentication failed.
> fetchmail: Authorization failure on user_name at my.server
> fetchmail: POP3> QUIT
> fetchmail: POP3< +OK Logging out
> fetchmail: 6.3.2 querying my.server (protocol POP3) at Wed 27 Sep 2006 12:15:21 AM CEST: poll completed
> fetchmail: Query status=3 (AUTHFAIL)
> fetchmail: Writing fetchids file.
> fetchmail: normal termination, status 3
> fetchmail: Writing fetchids file.
> 
> if I try with IMAP the part after the certificate verification error is:
> 
> fetchmail: IMAP> A0003 CAPABILITY
> fetchmail: IMAP< * CAPABILITY IMAP4rev1 SASL-IR SORT THREAD=REFERENCES MULTIAPPEND UNSELECT LITERAL+ IDLE CHILDRE
> N NAMESPACE LOGIN-REFERRALS AUTH=PLAIN AUTH=DIGEST-MD5
> fetchmail: IMAP< A0003 OK Capability completed.
> fetchmail: Protocol identified as IMAP4 rev 1
> fetchmail: IMAP> A0004 LOGIN "user_name" *
> fetchmail: IMAP< A0004 NO Authentication failed.
> fetchmail: IMAP> A0005 *
> fetchmail: Authorization failure on user_name at my.server
> fetchmail: IMAP> A0006 LOGOUT
> fetchmail: IMAP< A0005 BAD Error in IMAP command received by server.
> fetchmail: IMAP< * BYE Logging out
> 
> and I don't see any error message related to this in the server log.

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