Hi,

In an IRC channel, I've been told to uncomment args = dovecot and replace it with args = *. Now I don't get any errors remotely on Thunderbird side, however I get the following messages in /var/log/dovecot.log

dovecot: Jun 08 13:14:15 Info: auth(default): client in: AUTH 1
PLAIN service=POP3 lip=192.168.1.2 rip=212.98.201.1 resp=<hidden> dovecot: Jun 08 13:14:15 Info: auth(default): client out: CONT 1 dovecot: Jun 08 13:14:15 Info: auth(default): client in: CONT<hidden> dovecot: Jun 08 13:14:15 Info: auth(default): client out: OK 1
user=kabuto dovecot: Jun 08 13:14:15 Info: auth(default): master in: REQUEST
21 11446 1 dovecot: Jun 08 13:14:15 Info: auth(default): master out: USER 21
kabuto system_user=kabuto uid=1000 gid=100
home=/home/kabuto dovecot: Jun 08 13:14:15 Error: POP3(kabuto): pop3_uidl_format setting is missing from config file dovecot: Jun 08 13:14:15 Info: pop3-login: Login: user=<kabuto>, method=PLAIN, rip=212.98.201.1, lip=192.168.1.2 dovecot: Jun 08 13:14:15 Error: child 11478 (pop3) returned error 89

What's this error 89 and how can I fix it?

Alan Premselaar wrote:

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M. Tolga Özses wrote:

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Hi,

I have a login issue. I do everything I can think of, but can't login. My .conf file is at http://kabuto.kunduz.org/dovecot.conf and I make slight changes everytime I try a new thing. I last set disable_plaintext_auth to yes and when I try to login using Thunderbird, I get

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and dovecot.log reads

*Code:* dovecot: Jun 07 16:05:45 Info: auth(default): client in: AUTH 1
PLAIN service=POP3 lip=192.168.1.2 rip=212.98.201.1 resp=<hidden> dovecot: Jun 07 16:05:45 Info: auth(default): client out: CONT 1 dovecot: Jun 07 16:05:45 Info: auth(default): client in: CONT<hidden> dovecot: Jun 07 16:05:45 Info: auth(default): pam(kabuto,212.98.201.1): pam_authenticate() failed: Authentication failure dovecot: Jun 07 16:05:46 Info: auth(default): client out: FAIL 1
user=kabuto dovecot: Jun 07 16:05:47 Info: auth(default): client in: AUTH 2
PLAIN service=POP3 lip=192.168.1.2 rip=212.98.201.1 resp=<hidden> dovecot: Jun 07 16:05:47 Info: auth(default): pam(kabuto,212.98.201.1): pam_authenticate() failed: Authentication failure dovecot: Jun 07 16:05:48 Info: auth(default): client out: FAIL 2
user=kabuto dovecot: Jun 07 16:05:51 Info: pop3-login: Disconnected: user=<kabuto>, method=PLAIN, rip=212.98.201.1, lip=192.168.1.2

Can you help me with this? Sorry that it is long, but it was the only way to describe completely.

Best regards,

This looks like either pam isn't configured properly or you're sending the wrong password.

have you checked /etc/pam.d/dovecot to make sure it's configured properly? if /etc/pam.d/dovecot doesn't exist, but /etc/pam.d/imap and /etc/pam.d/pop3 do exist then consult the documentation for configuring dovecot to use service specific pam modules.

HTH

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