[Dovecot] What auth ?

[Spyros Tsiolis]

Terve !
:-)
Thank you kindly Timo.
Ooops ! Missed "auth_debug". Just enabled it.
I'll run some more tests and let you know.

I can attach the last error log lines. Here they are :

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Jan 02 19:14:05 auth(default): Info: client in: CONT    3       AHBvc3RtYXN0ZXIAazR2djRkMTQ=
Jan 02 19:14:05 auth(default): Info: passwd-file(postmaster,127.0.0.1): lookup: user=postmaster file=/etc/dovecot/passwd
Jan 02 19:14:05 auth(default): Info: passwd-file(postmaster,127.0.0.1): unknown user
Jan 02 19:14:07 auth(default): Info: client out: FAIL   3       user=postmaster
Jan 02 19:14:22 imap-login: Info: Aborted login (auth failed, 3 attempts): user=<postmaster>, method=PLAIN, rip=127.0.0.1, l
ip=127.0.0.1, TLS
Jan 02 19:14:58 Info: Dovecot v1.2.9 starting up (core dumps disabled)
Jan 02 19:14:58 auth(default): Info: passwd-file /etc/dovecot/passwd: Read 2 users
Jan 02 19:14:58 auth(default): Info: passwd-file /etc/dovecot/users: Read 2 users
Jan 02 19:14:59 auth(default): Info: new auth connection: pid=3495
Jan 02 19:14:59 auth(default): Info: new auth connection: pid=3496
Jan 02 19:14:59 auth(default): Info: new auth connection: pid=3497
Jan 02 19:15:17 auth(default): Info: new auth connection: pid=3501
Jan 02 19:15:26 imap-login: Info: Authenticate PLAIN failed: Unsupported authentication mechanism.: method=PLAIN, rip=127.0.
0.1, lip=127.0.0.1, secured
Jan 02 19:18:26 imap-login: Info: Disconnected: Inactivity (tried to use unsupported auth mechanism): method=PLAIN, rip=127.
0.0.1, lip=127.0.0.1, secured
Jan 02 20:36:13 Info: Dovecot v1.2.9 starting up (core dumps disabled)
Jan 02 20:36:13 auth(default): Info: passwd-file /etc/dovecot/passwd: Read 2 users
Jan 02 20:36:13 auth(default): Info: passwd-file /etc/dovecot/users: Read 2 users
Jan 02 20:36:14 auth(default): Info: new auth connection: pid=3558
Jan 02 20:36:14 auth(default): Info: new auth connection: pid=3559
Jan 02 20:36:14 auth(default): Info: new auth connection: pid=3560
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AFAIK, I disabled plain auth and enabled digest-md5.
i don't know what else is relevant to this. If you need anything else,
let me know.

Thank you for you reply.

Spyros



--- On Sat, 2/1/10, Timo Sirainen <tss at iki.fi> wrote:

> From: Timo Sirainen <tss at iki.fi>
> Subject: Re: [Dovecot] What auth ?
> To: "Spyros Tsiolis" <stsiol at yahoo.co.uk>
> Cc: "Dovecot" <dovecot at dovecot.org>
> Date: Saturday, 2 January, 2010, 19:04
> On 1.1.2010, at 18.19, Spyros Tsiolis
> wrote:
> 
> > Something worth noticing for step "5". If I do this
> logging-in with the
> > "user at fqdn" format, the systems kicks me out. I, then,
> check the latest
> > on "/var/log/dovecot/errors" to find that the system
> does not complain
> > about the auth.
> 
> If it disconnects you immediately, it really should have
> logged an error. Are you sure the errors go to that log
> file? Verify like http://wiki.dovecot.org/Logging says.
> Also auth_debug=yes could be helpful.
> 
>