You need to configure Postfix to use dovecot as SASL provider. There are some Howto's in the wiki.
http://wiki2.dovecot.org/**HowTo/PostfixAndDovecotSASLhttp://wiki2.dovecot.org/HowTo/PostfixAndDovecotSASL http://wiki2.dovecot.org/**HowTo/**VirtualUserFlatFilesPostfixhttp://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@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@mail ~]# cat /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf # 2.0.9: /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf # OS: Linux 2.6.32-71.el6.x86_64 x86_64 CentOS Linux release 6.0 (Final) auth_verbose = yes disable_plaintext_auth = no passdb { args = scheme=plain /etc/dovecot/passwd driver = passwd-file } protocols = imap pop3 service auth { unix_listener /var/spool/postfix/private/auth { group = postfix mode = 0660 user = postfix } } ssl = no userdb { driver = static }
[root@mail ~]# cat /etc/postfix/main.cf alias_database = hash:/etc/aliases alias_maps = hash:/etc/aliases broken_sasl_auth_clients = yes command_directory = /usr/sbin config_directory = /etc/postfix daemon_directory = /usr/libexec/postfix data_directory = /var/lib/postfix debug_peer_level = 2 html_directory = no inet_interfaces = all inet_protocols = all mail_owner = postfix mailq_path = /usr/bin/mailq.postfix manpage_directory = /usr/share/man mydestination = $myhostname, localhost.$mydomain, localhost newaliases_path = /usr/bin/newaliases.postfix queue_directory = /var/spool/postfix readme_directory = /usr/share/doc/postfix-2.6.6/README_FILES sample_directory = /usr/share/doc/postfix-2.6.6/samples sendmail_path = /usr/sbin/sendmail.postfix setgid_group = postdrop
smtpd_sasl_type = dovecot smtpd_sasl_path = private/auth smtpd_sasl_auth_enable = yes smtpd_recipient_restrictions = permit_mynetworks, permit_sasl_authenticated, reject_unauth_destination
these are my configuration files ..
Can someone help me here
thanks :)
-- Regards Agnello D'souza