Good evening from Aotearoa; First some details: Clients are all Outlook2003 on XP yawn Server is Suse 9.3 Samba, postfix, fetchmail and dovecot 1.0 rc13 I succesfully installed Dovecot on my test network at home, but at the job site its a mystery. I seem to be able to get one client to authenticate but not another. And only if i created a password file consisting of logins and no passwords. Dovecot won't use standard unix passwd successfully.
So here is the conf: base_dir = /var/run/dovecot/ protocols = pop3 listen = *:110 disable_plaintext_auth = no ssl_listen = ssl_disable = yes login_dir = /var/run/dovecot/login login_user = dovecot login_greeting = Dovecot ready. mail_extra_groups = users mail last_valid_uid = 2000 pop3_uidl_format = %08Xu%08Xv protocol lda { # Address to use when sending rejection mails. postmaster_address = postmaster@example.com } auth_username_chars = abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ01234567890.-_@ auth_debug_passwords = yes auth default { mechanisms = plain passdb passwd-file { args = /usr/local/etc/passwords } userdb passwd { } user = root default_mail_env = mbox:/var/spool/mail/:INBOX=/var/spool/mail/%u
And here is a sample of two of the syslogs.: I am not worried about the UID warning,I was try to login on from various clients. Though this is not a requirement. Sample of Mail log
Nov 30 18:30:27 SCSIServer dovecot: POP3(user): Couldn't open INBOX: Internal error occurred. Refer to server log for more information. [2006-11-30 18:30:27]
Nov 30 18:19:50 SCSIServer dovecot: pop3-login: Login: user=<user1>,
method=PLAIN, rip=192.168.1.113, lip=192.168.1.199
Nov 30 18:19:50 SCSIServer dovecot: POP3(user1): UIDVALIDITY changed
(1164764972 -> 1164774199) in mbox file /var/spool/mail/user1
Nov 30 18:19:50 SCSIServer dovecot: POP3(user1): Disconnected: Mailbox
is in inconsistent state. top=0/0, retr=0/0, del=0/0, size=0
Nov 30 18:20:04 SCSIServer dovecot: auth(default): client in: AUTH
1 PLAIN service=POP3 lip=192.168.1.199 rip=192.168.1.113
resp=AG9saXZpYQA=
Nov 30 18:20:46 SCSIServer dovecot: pop3-login: Login: user=<user2>, method=PLAIN, rip=192.168.1.115, lip=192.168.1.199 Nov 30 18:20:46 SCSIServer dovecot: POP3(user2): open() failed with index file /var/spool/mail/.imap/INBOX/dovecot.index: Permission denied Nov 30 18:20:46 SCSIServer dovecot: POP3(user2): open() failed with index file /var/spool/mail/.imap/INBOX/dovecot.index: Permission denied Nov 30 18:20:46 SCSIServer dovecot: POP3(user2): Couldn't open INBOX: Internal error occurred. Refer to server log for more information.
Warn log;
Nov 30 18:30:27 SCSIServer dovecot: POP3(user2): open() failed with index file /var/spool/mail/.imap/INBOX/dovecot.index: Permission denied Nov 30 18:30:27 SCSIServer dovecot: POP3(user2): Couldn't open INBOX: Internal error occurred. Refer to server log for more information. [2006-11-30 18:30:27]
It just occured to me these leading blanks in the conf file may effect, I am sure I read that somewhere to do with one of these things?
Any other ideas would be greatly appreciated.