Hello
passdb { driver = pam }
Is user fred defined on your development machine? Does the password match the one from the production machine?
Kind regards, Christian Mack
On 26.01.22 21:14, David Matthews wrote:
My live mail exchanger and development machines have identical dovecot setups, yet I cannot login on the development machine:-
dovecot --version 2.3.13 (89f716dc2)
telnet localhost 143 Trying 127.0.0.1... Connected to bulawayo. Escape character is '^]'.
- OK [CAPABILITY IMAP4rev1 SASL-IR LOGIN-REFERRALS ID ENABLE IDLE LITERAL+ STARTTLS AUTH=PLAIN] Dovecot (Debian) ready. a login fred xxxxxxxxxxx a NO [UNAVAILABLE] Temporary authentication failure. [bulawayo:2022-01-26 20:02:14]
same if I try openssl s_client to 993
tail /var/log/mail.log Jan 26 20:03:28 bulawayo dovecot: imap-login: Disconnected (auth service reported temporary failure): user=<fred>, method=PLAIN, rip=127.0.0.1, lip=127.0.0.1, secured, session=<1MRorYHWwOp/AAAB>
doveconf -n # 2.3.13 (89f716dc2): /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf # Pigeonhole version 0.5.13 (cdd19fe3) # OS: Linux 5.10.0-10-amd64 x86_64 Debian 11.1 # Hostname: bulawayo mail_location = mbox:~/mail:INBOX=/var/mail/%u mail_privileged_group = mail namespace inbox { inbox = yes location = mailbox Drafts { special_use = \Drafts } mailbox Junk { special_use = \Junk } mailbox Sent { special_use = \Sent } mailbox "Sent Messages" { special_use = \Sent } mailbox Trash { special_use = \Trash } prefix = } passdb { driver = pam } protocols = " imap" service imap-login { inet_listener imap { port = 143 } inet_listener imaps { port = 993 ssl = yes } } ssl_cert =
-- David Matthews mail@dmatthews.org
-- Christian Mack Universität Konstanz Kommunikations-, Informations-, Medienzentrum (KIM) Abteilung IT-Dienste Forschung und Lehre 78457 Konstanz +49 7531 88-4416