[Dovecot] Auth Fails, But Can Still Get Mail

[Timo Sirainen]

On Tue, 2009-12-15 at 11:53 -0700, Asai wrote:
> I've recently upgraded from version .97 to v. 1.2.  Everything seems to 
> be working OK, but I'm wondering why I'm getting authentication failure 
> messages in /var/log/maillog.  Like this:
> 
> Dec 15 11:02:41 triata dovecot: imap-login: Disconnected (auth failed, 1 
> attempts): user=<mycenay>, method=PLAIN, rip=140.9.5.1, lip=140.9.5.1, 
> secured
> 
> 
> Although that user can log in to the server and get email no problem.  

Maybe the user has multiple clients, or multiple accounts in one client
and one of them doesn't work? Anyway seems like a user/client problem.

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