[Dovecot] troubleshooting new dovecot installation

[Ray]

sorry, forgot to add version =1.0.0
Ray

On Monday 07 May 2007 9:13 pm, Ray wrote:
> Hello,
> I'm setting up a new mail server using freebsd 6.2, postfix, dovecot  with
> SASL and, eventually, squirrelmail.
> I've gone through
> http://wiki.dovecot.org/TestPop3Installation
> the program is running, plain works over telnet from local host or from a
> remote machine. I can do stat and retr commands.
> however, when I try to use the login method
> (that is what the command
> 1 login username password
> part is, isn't it?)
> all I get is:
> -ERR Unknown command.
> even with auth_verbose = yes
> auth_debug = yes, logs give no information.
> May  7 20:41:53 server dovecot: pop3-login: Disconnected: rip=1.2.3.4,
> lip=1.2.3.4
> (IP's substituted)
>
>
>  almost all of the users will be using outlook/outlook express so I'm only
> enabling plain and login methods.
>
> thanks
> Ray
>
>
>
> dovecot -n gives
> protocols: imap pop3
> ssl_disable: yes
> disable_plaintext_auth: no
> login_dir: /var/run/dovecot/login
> login_executable(default): /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/imap-login
> login_executable(imap): /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/imap-login
> login_executable(pop3): /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/pop3-login
> verbose_proctitle: yes
> first_valid_gid: 0
> mail_extra_groups: mail
> mail_location: maildir:/usr/local/mail/%d/%n
> mail_executable(default): /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/imap
> mail_executable(imap): /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/imap
> mail_executable(pop3): /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/pop3
> mail_plugin_dir(default): /usr/local/lib/dovecot/imap
> mail_plugin_dir(imap): /usr/local/lib/dovecot/imap
> mail_plugin_dir(pop3): /usr/local/lib/dovecot/pop3
> imap_client_workarounds(default): delay-newmail outlook-idle netscape-eoh
> tb-extra-mailbox-sep
> imap_client_workarounds(imap): delay-newmail outlook-idle netscape-eoh
> tb-extra-mailbox-sep
> imap_client_workarounds(pop3): outlook-idle
> pop3_uidl_format(default):
> pop3_uidl_format(imap):
> pop3_uidl_format(pop3): %08Xu%08Xv
> pop3_client_workarounds(default):
> pop3_client_workarounds(imap):
> pop3_client_workarounds(pop3): outlook-no-nuls oe-ns-eoh
> auth default:
>   mechanisms: plain login
>   passdb:
>     driver: pam
>   passdb:
>     driver: sql
>     args: /usr/local/etc/dovecot-sql.conf
>   userdb:
>     driver: passwd
>   userdb:
>     driver: prefetch
>     args: /usr/local/etc/dovecot-sql.conf
>   socket:
>     type: listen
>     client:
>       path: /var/spool/postfix/private/auth
>       user: postfix
>       group: postfix
>     master:
>
>  I don't think it matters, but for the sake of formality:
> server# grep -v '^ *\(#.*\)\?$' dovecot-sql.conf
> driver = mysql
> connect = host=/tmp/mysql.sock dbname=******** user=********
> password=******* password_query = SELECT md5(userpassword) AS password,
> home, virtual_uid AS userdb_uid, virtual_gid AS userdb_gid FROM
> virtual_users WHERE email = '%u' AND active = 1