can't authenticate

26 Jan 2022

      My live mail exchanger and development machines have identical dovecot setups, yet I cannot login on the development machine:-
dovecot --version
2.3.13 (89f716dc2)
...
telnet localhost 143
Trying 127.0.0.1...
Connected to bulawayo.
Escape character is '^]'.

OK [CAPABILITY IMAP4rev1 SASL-IR LOGIN-REFERRALS ID ENABLE IDLE LITERAL+ STARTTLS AUTH=PLAIN] Dovecot (Debian) ready.
a login fred xxxxxxxxxxx
a NO [UNAVAILABLE] Temporary authentication failure. [bulawayo:2022-01-26 20:02:14]

same if I try openssl s_client to 993
...
tail /var/log/mail.log
Jan 26 20:03:28 bulawayo dovecot: imap-login: Disconnected (auth service reported temporary failure): user=<fred>, method=PLAIN, rip=127.0.0.1, lip=127.0.0.1, secured, session=<1MRorYHWwOp/AAAB>
doveconf -n
# 2.3.13 (89f716dc2): /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf
# Pigeonhole version 0.5.13 (cdd19fe3)
# OS: Linux 5.10.0-10-amd64 x86_64 Debian 11.1
# Hostname: bulawayo
mail_location = mbox:~/mail:INBOX=/var/mail/%u
mail_privileged_group = mail
namespace inbox {
inbox = yes
location =
mailbox Drafts {
special_use = \Drafts
}
mailbox Junk {
special_use = \Junk
}
mailbox Sent {
special_use = \Sent
}
mailbox "Sent Messages" {
special_use = \Sent
}
mailbox Trash {
special_use = \Trash
}
prefix =
}
passdb {
driver = pam
}
protocols = " imap"
service imap-login {
inet_listener imap {
port = 143
}
inet_listener imaps {
port = 993
ssl = yes
}
}
ssl_cert = 
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David Matthews
mail@dmatthews.org

David Matthews

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