[Dovecot] Auth Fails, But Can Still Get Mail

Asai asai at globalchangemusic.org
Tue Dec 15 22:26:06 EET 2009


OK, thank you, Timo.

Timo Sirainen wrote:
> On Tue, 2009-12-15 at 13:03 -0700, Asai wrote:
>   
>>> I guess. Or something else running on localhost trying to log in as
>>> other users?
>>>   
>>>       
>> What method would I use to debug this?  Does Dovecot have a debug console?
>>     
>
> Does Squirrelmail log when it attempts to authenticate a user? That
> would be the easiest way. The other possibility that I can think of
> would be to catch the process in netstat -pn output, but running that at
> the correct time could be a bit difficult. Or I suppose you could just
> make a script that runs it every second and saves the output and current
> time and ps output. Then when you see a log failure, look up the correct
> netstat output and see which process has a connection to Dovecot.
>
>   

-- 
--asai



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