[Dovecot] Proxy Problems

[Richard Cooper]

On 27 Mar 2008, at 19:08, Scott Silva wrote:
> on 3-27-2008 11:46 AM Richard Cooper spake the following:
>> Hi,
>> I'm trying to use dovecot as a proxy as described on http://wiki.dovecot.org/PasswordDatabase/ExtraFields/Proxy 
>>  but without much success. The problem is that when I send a IMAP  
>> login command dovecot is responding with "BYE Internal login  
>> failure. Refer to server log for more information." Can anyone help  
>> me shed light on this problem?
>>
>> Here's the log (Username, password and IPs have been anonymised):
>> dovecot: Mar 27 13:07:11 Info: Dovecot v1.0.rc15 starting up
>> dovecot: Mar 27 13:07:12 Info: auth(default): passwd-file /root/ 
>> dovecot-proxy-test.passwd: Read 1 users
>> dovecot: Mar 27 13:07:29 Info: auth(default): client in: AUTH     
>> 1    PLAIN    service=IMAP    lip=192.168.0.1    rip=192.168.0.2     
>> resp=WWVzIEkgYW5vbnltaXNlZCB0aGlzIHRvbyA7LSk=
>> dovecot: Mar 27 13:07:29 Info: auth(default): client out: OK     
>> 1    user=test_proxy    proxy    host=192.168.0.3    port=143     
>> pass=password
>> dovecot: Mar 27 13:07:29 Info: auth(default): master in: REQUEST     
>> 1    11786    1
>> dovecot: Mar 27 13:07:29 Error: auth(default): Master request  
>> 11786.1 not found
>> dovecot: Mar 27 13:07:29 Info: auth(default): master out:  
>> NOTFOUND    1
>> dovecot: Mar 27 13:07:29 Info: imap-login: Internal login failure:  
>> user=<test_proxy>, method=PLAIN, rip=192.168.0.2, lip=192.168.0.1
>>
>> I am on Cent OS 5 using dovecot version 1.0.rc15 from their  
>> official yum repositories. If I connect my client directly to  
>> 192.168.0.3:143 using the same username and password everything  
>> works correctly.
>> Thanks in advance.
>> - Richard
> Try getting a newer version of dovecot from atrpms.net and see if it  
> works.
> Current is 1.0.13, at least a year newer then the release candidate  
> you are using.

That worked. Thank you.

- Richard