On Tue, 2007-05-29 at 13:13 +0300, gaoqiang.qian@nokia.com wrote:

Hi, I have installed the dovecot on my redhat linux host. But when I log in with dovecot/test I got Error: no authentication failed after I got ok dovecot ready when I connect to local host. dovecot/test was set in the password.dovecot file. But I do not know how can I use this username and password in the configuration file. Could anyone give me a hand to let me know how to configurate the username and password for login.

Dovecot can be configured in many different ways. You didn't provide your Dovecot version (hopefully not v0.99.x), RedHat version or your configuration (dovecot -n if you've v1.0), so I don't know how exactly it should be configured.

The easiest way to get it configured would be to make sure that you're using Dovecot v1.0 and follow "A simple Dovecot installation" guide in wiki.dovecot.org. Especially the http://wiki.dovecot.org/BasicConfiguration step.