[Dovecot] Dovecot 1.2.13 intermittent authentication failures

[C. Bensend]

>>    The only error I get in the mail log is:
>>
>> Aug  3 11:00:09 fusion dovecot: imap-login: Aborted login (auth failed,
>> 1
>> attempts): user=<benny>, method=PLAIN, rip=127.0.0.1, lip=127.0.0.1,
>> secured
>
> Get it to log more with auth_verbose=yes, and perhaps even
> auth_debug_passwords=yes.

And sure enough, there it is:


Aug  3 12:15:23 fusion dovecot: auth(default): client in: AUTH  1      
PLAIN   service=imap    secured lip=127.0.0.1   rip=127.0.0.1   lport=143 
     rport=19068     resp=<hidden>
Aug  3 12:15:23 fusion dovecot: auth(default): bsdauth(benny,127.0.0.1):
lookup
Aug  3 12:15:23 fusion dovecot: auth(default): bsdauth(benny,127.0.0.1):
password mismatch


The "password mismatch" would suggest that Squirrelmail may be
having a problem, which I have asked about on their list.  However,
just to cover my bases, is there something else that could have
happened that would be causing dovecot to get *random* password
mismatch errors?

Thank you so much!

Benny


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