[Dovecot] smtp -auth with using clear text password

[Jerry]

On Sat, 5 May 2012 11:44:02 +0530
Agnello George articulated:


>> You need to configure Postfix to use dovecot as SASL provider. There
>> are some Howto's in the wiki.
>>
>> http://wiki2.dovecot.org/**HowTo/PostfixAndDovecotSASL<http://wiki2.dovecot.org/HowTo/PostfixAndDovecotSASL>
>> http://wiki2.dovecot.org/**HowTo/**VirtualUserFlatFilesPostfix<http://wiki2.dovecot.org/HowTo/VirtualUserFlatFilesPostfix>
>>
>> If you cannot solve it with this please provide dovecot -n, postfix
>> -n and logs with auth_debug=yes.
>
>I had followed the documentation as per . however in the  i get the
>following error .
>
>[root at test /]# telnet 192.168.77.36 110
>Trying 192.168.77.36...
>Connected to mail.server.co.in (192.168.77.36).
>Escape character is '^]'.
>+OK Dovecot ready.
>user agnello
>+OK
>pass 123456
>Connection closed by foreign host.
>
>in the maillog i get the following error :
>
>May  5 11:30:43 mail dovecot: imap-login: Disconnected (no auth
>attempts): rip=192.168.70.12, lip=192.168.77.36
>May  5 11:30:55 mail dovecot: pop3-login: Login: user=<agnello>,
>method=PLAIN, rip=192.168.70.12, lip=192.168.77.36, mpid=30400
>May  5 11:30:55 mail dovecot: pop3(agnello): Error: user agnello:
>Couldn't drop privileges: User is missing UID (see mail_uid setting)
>May  5 11:30:55 mail dovecot: pop3(agnello): Error: Internal error
>occurred. Refer to server log for more information.
>
>my confi file details is as follows :
>
>cat  /etc/dovecot/passwd
>agnello:{plain}123456
>
>[root at mail ~]# cat /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf

use: "dovecot -n" and post output

>[root at mail ~]# cat /etc/postfix/main.cf

use: "postconf -n" and post output

For Postfix, you could read the documentation at:

http://www.postfix.com/DEBUG_README.html#mail

Pay attention to these entries:

Output from "postconf -n". Please do not send your main.cf file, or
500+ lines of postconf output.

Better, provide output from the postfinger tool. This can be found at
http://ftp.wl0.org/SOURCES/postfinger.

If the problem is SASL related, consider including the output from the
saslfinger tool. This can be found at
http://postfix.state-of-mind.de/patrick.koetter/saslfinger/.

-- 
Jerry ♔

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