I tried to run dovecot 1.0 built by myself but encountered the above problem.
See the error traces below. First of all, the password and user are correct, as it worked with the 0.99 rpm version of dovecot. I also hand verified with ssh.
I also attached the dovecot config file below. Any ideas?
Jun
fetchmail output on client:
fetchmail: POP3< +OK Dovecot ready. fetchmail: POP3> CAPA fetchmail: POP3< +OK fetchmail: POP3< CAPA fetchmail: POP3< TOP fetchmail: POP3< USER fetchmail: POP3< UIDL fetchmail: POP3< RESP-CODES fetchmail: POP3< PIPELINING fetchmail: POP3< SASL PLAIN fetchmail: POP3< . fetchmail: POP3> USER jam fetchmail: POP3< +OK fetchmail: POP3> PASS * fetchmail: POP3< -ERR Authentication failed. fetchmail: Authentication failed.
maillog on dovecot server:
Jul 22 18:28:18 hsiufen dovecot: auth(default): passwd(jam,24.6.106.170): password mismatch Jul 22 18:28:19 hsiufen dovecot: pop3-login: Aborted login [24.6.106.170] Jul 22 18:29:32 hsiufen dovecot: Killed with signal 2
dovecot.conf
protocols = imap imaps pop3 pop3s listen = * ssl_disable = no disable_plaintext_auth = no protocol imap { login_executable = /root/local/encap/dovecot-1.0/libexec/dovecot/imap-login mail_executable = /root/local/encap/dovecot-1.0/libexec/dovecot/imap } protocol pop3 { login_executable = /root/local/encap/dovecot-1.0/libexec/dovecot/pop3-login mail_executable = /root/local/encap/dovecot-1.0/libexec/dovecot/pop3 } auth_executable = /root/local/encap/dovecot-1.0/libexec/dovecot/dovecot-auth auth_verbose = yes auth default { mechanisms = plain passdb = passwd userdb = passwd user = root }