[Dovecot] Authentication failed (migrate from 2.0.13 to 2.0.17)

[Timo Sirainen]

With auth_debug_passwords=yes you'll get a lot more in the log. If you don't see, you're not looking into the correct file. Make sure you look into the debug log as shown by "doveadm log find".

On 3.7.2012, at 8.34, Dovecot user wrote:

> 
> 
> i just get this error :
> dovecot: imap-login: Aborted login (auth
> failed, 1 attempts): method=DIGEST-MD5, rip=127.0.0.1, lip=127.0.0.1,
> secured
> root at mx:/var/log # date 
> 
> IMAP Error: Login failed for
> testing at mydomain.net from 192.168.0.92. Authentication failed. in
> /var/www/webmail/roundcubemail-0.7.2/program/include/rcube_imap.php on
> line 205 (POST /webmail/?_task=login&_action=login)
> 
> On 03.07.2012
> 09:20, Timo Sirainen wrote: 
> 
>> On 3.7.2012, at 8.00, Dovecot user
> wrote:
>> 
>>> I tried to do the same 'dovecot -n' (dovecot 2.0.13, same
> config file) :
>> 
>> Oh, are you saying that the difference isn't just
> the Dovecot version, but that they are completely different systems with
> (somewhat) different settings also? That's much more likely the problem
> than the version number.
>> 
>>> Is it normal that there are no lines :
> "default_internal_user = _dovecot" & "default_login_user = _dovenull"
>> 
> 
>> Normal enough. It's then using the Dovecot's defaults which are
> "dovecot" and "dovenull".
>