passwd mismatch

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I used his blog for freebsd. He gets you really close, but I found a few lines deprecated, but IIRC in postfix mostly. 

The sha512 scheme works fine. But are you sure you did the postmap earlier in the instructions?

What I like about his scheme is it is a stick shift versus automatic. That is there is no port 80 means to add or delete users. This is fine for a mail server with a small number of addresses. I prefer this set up rather than having jerks/bots trying to login to some web based email account management panel. But you need to follow the instructions exactly else you will grind the gears. ‎As I add accounts, I occasional miss the postmap.

Again to avoid hackers, I didn't add the roundcube feature. ‎(Technically you would say this reduces the attack surface.)
  Original Message  
From: Mike Ponto
Sent: Wednesday, May 18, 2016 3:09 PM
To: dovecot at dovecot.org
Subject: passwd mismatch

I have been trying to follow the "instructions" at 
"http://blog.iandreev.com/?p=1975#dovecot" and they seem to be pretty 
good. everything works until I get to the part were I test the dovecot 
installation and it keeps failing.
I get an AUTH fail error at the "telnet localhost 110" login commands

I am trying to setup 3 domains:
domain1.us
domain2.com
domain3.com
I have 4 users entered in the /etc/dovecot/users file
I followed the instructions for creating an encrypted password but don't 
think it is correct and I don't have the knowledge to say why. Just 
doesn't feel right.

I admit I am over my head and the learning curve just got exponential - 
any help at all would be really appreciated.


System:
QEMU/KVM vitrual install
Centos 7.01
basic install
4096 G Ram
4 proc
120 G HD

unit is behind an IPCop firewall with port forwarding.
internal IP 192.168.1.155
external IP on request

have username in /etc/dovecot/users as such:
mynamehere at mydomainhere.us:

Turned on debuggin and log file shows:
May 18 16:45:02 auth: Debug: auth client connected (pid=5639)
May 18 16:45:16 auth: Debug: client in: AUTH 1 PLAIN 
service=pop3 secured session=2pP4xSQzzgAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAB
lip=::1 rip=::1 lport=110 rport=33742 $
May 18 16:45:16 auth: Debug: 
passwd-file(mynamehere at mydomainhere.us,::1,<2pP4xSQzzgAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAB>): 
lookup: user=mynamehere at mydomainhere.us file=/etc/dovecot/users
May 18 16:45:16 auth: Info: 
passwd-file(mynamehere at mydomainhere.us,::1,<2pP4xSQzzgAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAB>): 
Password mismatch
May 18 16:45:18 auth: Debug: client passdb out: FAIL 1 
user=mynameherel at mydomainhere.us
May 18 16:45:20 pop3-login: Info: Aborted login (auth failed, 1 attempts 
in 4 secs): user=<mynamehere at mydomain.us>, method=PLAIN, rip=::1, 
lip=::1, secured, session=<2pP4xSQzzgAAAAAA$