[Dovecot] Massive Dovecot auth errors too strange for me

[Timo Sirainen]

On Tue, 2007-12-18 at 11:16 +0000, Rudi K. wrote:
> im running Dovecot on "ubuntu Dapper" serving pop3 only in maildir-style,
> but the dove-auth-process refuses "answers" to the deliver or
> login-process from time to time, (several times a day),
> and I have no glue whats going on and why ...
> Debbugging password-Auth surprised me, as the transmitted password
> IS correct and allows an successfull authenification lots of hundreds
> times a day.... but suddenly runs into trouble ..
..
> Dec 18 10:33:09 server dovecot: auth(default): ssha_verify(info at mydom.de): invalid SSHA base64 decode

You mean usually info at mydom.de can log in? If so,

> root at server:~# dovecot --version
> 1.0.rc17

my only suggestion is to upgrade to a somewhat recent v1.0 release.

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