Hi All,
I am struggling for 2 weeks solving authentication problem in dovecot.
logs from /etc/mail/maillog
Oct 15 18:00:35 localhost dovecot: auth: Debug: Loading modules from
directory: /usr/lib64/dovecot/auth
Oct 15 18:00:35 localhost dovecot: auth: Debug: Module loaded:
/usr/lib64/dovecot/auth/libauthdb_ldap.so
Oct 15 18:00:35 localhost dovecot: auth: Debug: Module loaded:
/usr/lib64/dovecot/auth/libdriver_mysql.so
Oct 15 18:00:35 localhost dovecot: auth: Debug: Module loaded:
/usr/lib64/dovecot/auth/libdriver_pgsql.so
Oct 15 18:00:35 localhost dovecot: auth: Debug: Module loaded:
/usr/lib64/dovecot/auth/libdriver_sqlite.so
Oct 15 18:00:35 localhost dovecot: auth: Debug: Module loaded:
/usr/lib64/dovecot/auth/libmech_gssapi.so
Oct 15 18:00:35 localhost dovecot: auth: Debug: auth client connected
(pid=26723)
Oct 15 18:00:35 localhost dovecot: auth: Debug: client in:
AUTH#0111#011PLAIN#011service=pop3#011lip=10.0.0.123#011rip=88.22.197.66#011lport=110#011rport=2358#011resp=AGhvd2VsbEB0b3VyZm9yeW91LmluZm8AanVtb25n
Oct 15 18:00:35 localhost dovecot: auth: Debug: Loading modules from
directory: /usr/lib64/dovecot/auth
Oct 15 18:00:35 localhost dovecot: auth: Debug: Module loaded:
/usr/lib64/dovecot/auth/libauthdb_ldap.so
Oct 15 18:00:35 localhost dovecot: auth: Debug: Module loaded:
/usr/lib64/dovecot/auth/libdriver_mysql.so
Oct 15 18:00:35 localhost dovecot: auth: Debug: Module loaded:
/usr/lib64/dovecot/auth/libdriver_pgsql.so
Oct 15 18:00:35 localhost dovecot: auth: Debug: Module loaded:
/usr/lib64/dovecot/auth/libdriver_sqlite.so
Oct 15 18:00:35 localhost dovecot: auth: Debug: Module loaded:
/usr/lib64/dovecot/auth/libmech_gssapi.so
Oct 15 18:00:35 localhost dovecot: auth: Debug:
pam(howell@mydomain.infohowell@tourforyou.info,88.22.33.66):
lookup service=dovecot
Oct 15 18:00:35 localhost dovecot: auth: Debug:
pam(howell@mydomain.infohowell@tourforyou.info,88.22.197.66):
#1/1 style=1 msg=Password:
Oct 15 18:00:37 localhost dovecot: auth:
pam(howell@mydomain.infohowell@tourforyou.info,88.22.197.66):
unknown user
Oct 15 18:00:39 localhost dovecot: auth: Debug: client out:
FAIL#0111#011user=howell@mydomain.info#011reason=Passwordhttp://howell@tourforyou.info/#011reason=Password
:
Oct 15 18:00:39 localhost dovecot: pop3-login: Disconnected (auth failed, 1
attempts): user=
Oct 15 18:01:05 localhost sendmail[26722]: q9FA15LB026722: [88.22.197.66] did not issue MAIL/EXPN/VRFY/ETRN during connection to MTA
# 2.0.9: /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf # OS: Linux 2.6.32-279.el6.x86_64 x86_64 CentOS release 6.3 (Final) ext4 auth_debug_passwords = yes auth_mechanisms = plain login auth_socket_path = /var/run/dovecot/auth-userdb disable_plaintext_auth = no last_valid_gid = 10 last_valid_uid = 650 listen = * login_greeting = Dovecot ready for you. mail_debug = yes mail_location = mbox:/var/spool/mail/%d/%1n/%n:INDEX=/var/indexes/%d/%1n/%n managesieve_notify_capability = mailto managesieve_sieve_capability = fileinto reject envelope encoded-character vacation subaddress comparator-i;ascii-numeric relational regex imap4flags copy include variables body enotify environment mailbox date passdb { args = setcred=yes failure_show_msg=yes cache_key=%u dovecot driver = pam } plugin { sieve = ~/.dovecot.sieve sieve_dir = ~/sieve } service imap-login { inet_listener imap { port = 143 } } service pop3-login { inet_listener pop3 { port = 110 } } ssl_cert =