[Dovecot] Exim and Dovecot2 SASL: 435 Unable to authenticate at present

Sergey Urushkin urushkin at telros.ru
Mon Jul 4 21:21:51 EEST 2011


On Mon, 4 Jul 2011 12:38:01 +0200, Andraž 'ruskie' Levstik wrote:
> :2011-06-28T21:38:Sergey Urushkin:
>
>> Hi. I had working Exim 4.71 and Dovecot 1.2.9 SASL configuration on 
>> Ubuntu
>> Lucid, but needed some features from dovecot2, so I installed 2.0.13 
>> from
>> https://launchpad.net/~carsten-uppenbrink-net/+archive/dovecot2 . 
>> Now I get
>> Subj error while trying to authenticate via dovecot auth-client 
>> socket.
>> However IMAP auth works fine with 2.0.13 and smtp auth worked fine 
>> until
>> upgrade, so I think there is something wrong with dovecot2.
>>
>> Dovecot logs stay empty even with auth_debug*, just one string 
>> "auth: Debug:
>> Loading modules from bla...". But here is another information that 
>> may help.
>> And if it's needed I can build dovecot myself to ensure that 
>> ppa-build isn't
>> guilty. Or debug some another way.
>
> If this is still relevant.
>
> This has been fixed in a later than 4.71 exim - specifically
> 4.72(current version is 4.76) so just upgrade and it will work.

Thanks, it's working after upgrading. As you adviced, I wanted to check 
if the latest version works before posting exim bug report. Well, no bug 
- no report is needed.

>
> Regards

-- 
Best regards,
Sergey Urushkin


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