[Dovecot] Problem Authenticating with Master User

[Henry Franco]

# dovecot -n

# 1.1.20: /etc/dovecot.conf
# OS: Linux 2.6.18-8.el5xen x86_64 CentOS release 5.2 (Final) ext3
protocols: imaps imap
listen: *
ssl_ca_file: /etc/ssl/ca/ca-bundle.crt
ssl_cert_file: /etc/ssl/crt/server.crt
ssl_key_file: /etc/ssl/key/server.key
login_dir: /var/run/dovecot/login
login_executable: /usr/libexec/dovecot/imap-login
login_processes_count: 64
login_max_processes_count: 2048
valid_chroot_dirs: /home/vmail/domains
max_mail_processes: 4096
first_valid_uid: 102
last_valid_uid: 102
first_valid_gid: 102
last_valid_gid: 102
mail_uid: vmail
mail_gid: vmail
mail_location: maildir:/home/vmail/domains/%d/%n
lda:
  postmaster_address: postmaster at server.com
  auth_socket_path: /var/run/dovecot-auth-master
  global_script_path: /home/vmail/domains/server.com/sieve
  mail_plugins: cmusieve
auth default_with_listener:
  master_user_separator: *
  verbose: yes
  debug: yes
  debug_passwords: yes
  passdb:
    driver: ldap
    args: /etc/dovecot-ldap.conf
  userdb:
    driver: ldap
    args: /etc/dovecot-ldap.conf
  socket:
    type: listen
    client:
      path: /var/run/dovecot/auth-client
      mode: 432
    master:
      path: /var/run/dovecot-auth-master
      mode: 384
      user: vmail
      group: vmail
auth default:
  master_user_separator: *
  verbose: yes
  debug: yes
  debug_passwords: yes
  passdb:
    driver: passwd-file
    args: /etc/dovecot.master
    pass: yes
    master: yes
  passdb:
    driver: shadow
  passdb:
    driver: pam
  passdb:
    driver: ldap
    args: /etc/dovecot-ldap.conf
  userdb:
    driver: passwd
  userdb:
    driver: ldap
    args: /etc/dovecot-ldap.conf-- 



On Apr 28, 2011, at 5:27 PM, Timo Sirainen wrote:

> On 29.4.2011, at 0.25, Henry Franco wrote:
> 
>> The only way I can authenticate successfully is if I try to authenticate
>> through telnet twice. Also, imapsync (the tool I need to use to migrate over
>> emails from Dovecot to other mail server) won't work because of this.
> 
> dovecot -n output?
>