Saw the new repository notification, and figured what the heck I would try letting it upgrade me from the current v2.2.22 release that apparently is in the Ubuntu 16.04 packages, to the new repository release of v2.3.0.
I followed the info on repo.dovecot.org, and first it started bitching about lmtp (dovecot: master: Fatal: service(lmtp) access(/usr/lib/dovecot/lmtp) failed: No such file or directory), so I went back and installed the dovecot-lmtpd package and that seemed to fix that issue. Just FYI, I had dovecot-core, dovecot-imapd, and dovecot-pop3d installed on the system.
OK, so now it started up, said it was 2.3.0 and I thought all was good, but now all authentication is failing. I turned on some of the logging debugging, and am seeing the below:
dovecot: auth-worker(19578): Debug: pam(toss1,127.0.0.1,<IR3NJlZhFtZ/AAAB>): lookup service=dovecot dovecot: auth-worker(19578): Debug: pam(toss1,127.0.0.1,<IR3NJlZhFtZ/AAAB>): #1/1 style=1 msg=Password: dovecot: auth-worker(19578): pam(toss1,127.0.0.1,<IR3NJlZhFtZ/AAAB>): pam_authenticate() failed: System error dovecot: auth: Debug: client passdb out: FAIL#0111#011user=toss1 dovecot: imap-login: Aborted login (auth failed, 1 attempts in 3 secs): user=<toss1>, method=PLAIN, rip=127.0.0.1, lip=127.0.1.1, session=<IR3NJlZhFtZ/AAAB>
I took and compared my auth files like 10-auth.conf, and auth-system.conf.ext, and they are identical between the two versions, even though they were overwritten as part of the upgrade.
If I just uninstall the 2.3.0 release, and install 2.2.22 back on the server, it all just starts working again. So for now I am back on 2.2, but was willing to give 2.3 a run if I can get it going. Any ideas as to what to look at to get this working, would be great. As stated above, this is Ubuntu Server 16.04.03, and I am also running Postfix and amavis-new, but don't think they should really impact me using dovecot for email over POP3 or IMAP..
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