[Dovecot] I'm the ONLY user that can get mail

[mdunlap]

So youre sure the mail isn't being delivered to the users maildir? but 
you just can't access it with IMAP.
You can test authentication if using saslauthd by typing 'sudo 
testsaslauthd -u username -p password -s smtp'. Just some thoughts.

On Wed, 5 Oct 2011 19:11:31 -0400, Ed Hochman wrote:
> Hi,
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> I'm stumped.  I can access the postfix server to read my mail.
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> BUT I'm the only user that can.
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> Everyone else get rejected.
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> Here's the syslog entry for another user:
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> ...dovecot: pop3-login: Disconnected (auth failed, 1 attempts):
> user=<jmarino>, method=PLAIN, rip=192.168.0.51, lip=192.168.0.189
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> And here's an entry for me:
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> ...dovecot: pop3-login: Login: user=<ed>, method=PLAIN,
> rip=192.168.0.51, lip=192.168.0.189
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> So ONLY I am able to get my mail.  And this is consistent.
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> The other users and passwords are valid.  I've re-set them just to be 
> sure.
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> I suspect it's a rights issue but I've checked the rights for all
> /var/mail files and they're all the same except the owner of the file 
> is
>  the actual owner.
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> I also checked all the rights for the files in /etc/dovecot.  They 
> all
> look OK and they all have root/root for the owner and user.
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> Since I installed the system and did all the editing of the
> configuration files it's possible, but unlikely, that I'm the owner 
> or
> group of some key file.  I've looked for that but found nothing
> suspicious.
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> Is it possible I may have given myself root access?  I don't see how.
> My UID is 1000. Does the fact I'm the first user (per my UID) make a
> difference?  I would think not.
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> So I'm stumped.  I don't have a clue as to where to look or what to 
> do next.
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> Any thoughts will be greatly appreciated.
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> This is Dovecot 1.2.15 on Ubuntu 11.04.  A new/clean install.
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> Plaintext passwords are allowed.
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> Here's dovecot -n
> # 1.2.15: /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf
> # OS: Linux 2.6.38-11-generic i686 Ubuntu 11.04
> protocols: pop3
> disable_plaintext_auth: no
> login_dir: /var/run/dovecot/login
> login_executable: /usr/lib/dovecot/pop3-login
> mail_privileged_group: mail
> mbox_write_locks: fcntl dotlock
> mail_executable: /usr/lib/dovecot/pop3
> mail_plugin_dir: /usr/lib/dovecot/modules/pop3
> auth default:
>   passdb:
>     driver: passwd
>   passdb:
>     driver: passwd-file
>     args: /etc/passwd.dovecot
>   userdb:
>     driver: passwd
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> Thanks