[Dovecot] sending of password did not succeed

[Peter Sparkes]

Hi Harald
>
> Thanks for replying
>
> stat /home/didm.co.uk/peter/Maildir/tmp gives
>
>   File: `/home/didm.co.uk/peter/Maildir/tmp'
>   Size: 4096            Blocks: 8          IO Block: 4096   directory
> Device: 901h/2305d      Inode: 13836957    Links: 2
> Access: (0755/drwxr-xr-x)  Uid: ( 1223/   peter)   Gid: ( 1108/didm.co.uk)
> Access: 2013-02-28 04:36:36.000000000 +0000
> Modify: 2013-02-28 17:08:22.000000000 +0000
> Change: 2013-02-28 17:08:22.000000000 +0000
>
> ls -lha -R /home/didm.co.uk/peter/ ouputs a long list part of which is
>
> /home/didm.co.uk/peter/Maildir/new:
> total 844K
> drwxr-xr-x 2 peter didm.co.uk 4.0K Feb 28 17:08 .
> drwxr-xr-x 8 peter didm.co.uk 4.0K Feb 28 08:01 ..
> -rw------- 1 peter peter       12K Feb 28 08:41
> 1362040901.H489863P3132.didm-a.dh.bytemark.co.uk
> -rw------- 1 peter peter      3.2K Feb 28 08:46
> 1362041185.H453645P3137.didm-a.dh.bytemark.co.uk
> -rw------- 1 peter peter      2.8K Feb 28 08:59
> 1362041976.H290857P3254.didm-a.dh.bytemark.co.uk
> -rw------- 1 peter peter      2.1K Feb 28 09:01
> 1362042100.H237350P3263.didm-a.dh.bytemark.co.uk
> -rw------- 1 peter peter      303K Feb 28 09:05
> 1362042315.H1078P3266.didm-a.dh.bytemark.co.uk
> -rw------- 1 peter peter       29K Feb 28 09:16
> 1362042969.H141065P4039.didm-a.dh.bytemark.co.uk
> -rw------- 1 peter peter       15K Feb 28 09:29
> 1362043772.H424096P4070.didm-a.dh.bytemark.co.uk
> -rw------- 1 peter peter       485 Feb 28 09:34
> 1362044091.H313425P4077.didm-a.dh.bytemark.co.uk
> -rw------- 1 peter peter       11K Feb 28 09:44
> 1362044642.H822470P4880.didm-a.dh.bytemark.co.uk
> -rw------- 1 peter peter      2.4K Feb 28 11:38
> 1362051505.H650923P7747.didm-a.dh.bytemark.co.uk
> -rw------- 1 peter peter      3.6K Feb 28 12:03
> 1362053012.H602533P8671.didm-a.dh.bytemark.co.uk
> -rw------- 1 peter peter       27K Feb 28 12:44
> 1362055442.H625207P10611.didm-a.dh.bytemark.co.uk
> -rw------- 1 peter peter       40K Feb 28 13:14
> 1362057256.H571100P11598.didm-a.dh.bytemark.co.uk
> -rw------- 1 peter peter       83K Feb 28 13:15
> 1362057339.H568650P11605.didm-a.dh.bytemark.co.uk
> -rw------- 1 peter peter      9.3K Feb 28 14:05
> 1362060354.H307724P12580.didm-a.dh.bytemark.co.uk
> -rw------- 1 peter peter       16K Feb 28 14:25
> 1362061514.H650991P13554.didm-a.dh.bytemark.co.uk
> -rw------- 1 peter peter      9.0K Feb 28 15:47
> 1362066474.H389245P16304.didm-a.dh.bytemark.co.uk
> -rw------- 1 peter peter       46K Feb 28 15:53
> 1362066827.H631037P16382.didm-a.dh.bytemark.co.uk
> -rw------- 1 peter peter      3.9K Feb 28 15:56
> 1362067018.H98463P16401.didm-a.dh.bytemark.co.uk
> -rw------- 1 peter peter       20K Feb 28 16:15
> 1362068100.H694502P17251.didm-a.dh.bytemark.co.uk
> -rw------- 1 peter peter       44K Feb 28 16:27
> 1362068836.H298454P17321.didm-a.dh.bytemark.co.uk
> -rw------- 1 peter peter       53K Feb 28 17:06
> 1362071183.H205812P18284.didm-a.dh.bytemark.co.uk
> -rw------- 1 peter peter       53K Feb 28 17:08
> 1362071302.H916902P18293.didm-a.dh.bytemark.co.uk
>
>
> Regards
>
> Peter
>
>
> On Thu, Feb 28, 2013 at 5:27 PM, Reindl Harald <h.reindl at thelounge.net>wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> Am 28.02.2013 18:20, schrieb Peter Sparkes:
>> > Hi
>> >
>> > Today I have upgraded my Debian server from lenny to squeeze and my
>> email
>> > stopped working.
>> >
>> > I am using Dovecot 1.2.15 with exim4.
>> >
>> > Exim4 is working and mail is being delivered to the mailboxes - /home/
>> > didm.co.uk/peter/Maildir/new etc
>> >
>> > When I try to download emails to my I get
>> >
>> > "sending of password did not succeed, Mail server
>> > mail.didm.co.ukresponded:Authentication failed"
>> >
>> > and the server Dovecot error log "utime(/home/
>> didm.co.uk/peter/Maildir/tmp)
>> > failed: Permission denied" etc
>>
>> and what says "stat /home/didm.co.uk/peter/Maildir/tmp"
>> or "ls -lha -R /home/didm.co.uk/peter/"?
>>
>>
>