[Dovecot] Can't get authentication for masterusers on Mac OS X Server 10.6.8

[Joseph Tam]

On Tue, 4 Mar 2014, dovecot-request at dovecot.org wrote:

> #telnet mailserv.example.com 143
> Connected to mailserv.example.com.
> Escape character is '^]'.
> * OK Dovecot ready.
> 1 login myusername myPassword
> 1 OK Logged in.
> 1 logout
> * BYE Logging out
> 1 OK Logout completed.
> Connection closed by foreign host.

This does not test what you want, which is trying to authenticate the
master user, not the regular user.  From what I remember of your config,
you have another passdb which holds the credentials of your master user:
you need to check that file to make sure the master user's password
(hash) matches what you think the master password ought to be.

Joseph Tam <jtam.home at gmail.com>