Hello dovecot gods, after using Postfix with webmail for 8 years the new gen of email smartphones forces me to consider using IMAP. Actually, for several months I was successfully using IMAP. I believe the reason why IMAP worked previously (before migrating to the Cloud) the hosting server and the client machines were considered local by the system. Now, I have moved everything to a Cloud service. And, now attempts to use my Ubuntu Evolution or iPhone generates the following error condition in my logs:

dovecot: auth(default): client in: AUTH 1 PLAIN service=imap lip=xxx.yyy.www.zzz rip=75.214.160.72 lport=143 rport=59107 resp=AGRhdmlkAGx1dGVmaXNr dovecot: auth(default): passwd(kilroy,75.214.160.72): lookup dovecot: auth(default): passwd(kilroy,75.214.160.72): Password mismatch dovecot: auth(default): passwd(kilroy,75.214.160.72): CRYPT(mypass) != 'x' dovecot: auth(default): new auth connection: pid=15522 dovecot: auth(default): client out: FAIL 1 user=kilroy

dovecot -n

1.2.9: /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf # OS: Linux 2.6.34.1-rscloud x86_64 Ubuntu 10.04.2 LTS log_timestamp: %Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S disable_plaintext_auth: no login_dir: /var/run/dovecot/login login_executable: /usr/lib/dovecot/imap-login mail_privileged_group: mail mail_location: maildir:~/Maildir mbox_write_locks: fcntl dotlock auth default: realms: myname.name, hisname.name, hername.name default_realm: myrealm.com username_format: %n verbose: yes debug: yes debug_passwords: yes passdb: driver: passwd userdb: driver: passwd