Hi,

I have a FreeBSD 7.0 server with the following version of software's installed:

postfix-2.5.4,1

postfixadmin-2.2.1.1

roundcube-0.2.a,1

php5

mysql-server-5.0.67

dovecot-1.1.3_1

Note that pre-reqs for all of the above also has been installed. I have used this guide to walk myself through the setup : http://www.purplehat.org/?page_id=4

My setup uses virtual domain and user style(mostly for hosting provider type) , all stored into the Mysql db, now when I try to telnet to port 110 for pop test or even telnet for IMAP test , I get this error:

dovecot: Sep 24 18:51:49 Info: pop3-login: Aborted login (auth failed, 1 attempts): user=<rein>, method=PLAIN, rip=127.0.0.1, lip=127.0.0.1, secured

note : there are numerous of there errors , but I included only this.

Dovecot is not able to authenticate by using the query in its dovecot-sql.conf file. I have tried a lot of tricks by changing the mechanism MD5 , PLAIN LOGIN etc, but no avail.

Please , could someone assist me in solving this issue, not that I can send and receive emails but pop and IMAP seems not to work , so is the webmail functionality .

Here is my dovecot -n output :

# 1.1.3: /usr/local/etc/dovecot.conf

log_path: /var/log/dovecot.log

protocols: imap imaps pop3 pop3s

ssl_cert_file: /etc/ssl/dovecot/cert.pem

ssl_key_file: /etc/ssl/dovecot/key.pem

disable_plaintext_auth: no

login_dir: /var/run/dovecot/login

login_executable(default): /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/imap-login

login_executable(imap): /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/imap-login

login_executable(pop3): /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/pop3-login

login_greeting: Baby Is Ready.

login_greeting_capability(default): yes

login_greeting_capability(imap): yes

login_greeting_capability(pop3): no

verbose_proctitle: yes

first_valid_uid: 125

last_valid_uid: 125

first_valid_gid: 125

last_valid_gid: 125

mail_privileged_group: mail

mail_location: maildir:/usr/local/virtual/%d/%n

maildir_copy_preserve_filename: yes

mail_executable(default): /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/imap

mail_executable(imap): /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/imap

mail_executable(pop3): /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/pop3

mail_plugins(default): quota imap_quota

mail_plugins(imap): quota imap_quota

mail_plugins(pop3): quota

mail_plugin_dir(default): /usr/local/lib/dovecot/imap

mail_plugin_dir(imap): /usr/local/lib/dovecot/imap

mail_plugin_dir(pop3): /usr/local/lib/dovecot/pop3

imap_client_workarounds(default): delay-newmail netscape-eoh tb-extra-mailbox-se

imap_client_workarounds(imap): delay-newmail netscape-eoh tb-extra-mailbox-sep

imap_client_workarounds(pop3):

pop3_enable_last(default): no

pop3_enable_last(imap): no

pop3_enable_last(pop3): yes

pop3_client_workarounds(default):

pop3_client_workarounds(imap):

pop3_client_workarounds(pop3): outlook-no-nuls oe-ns-eoh

auth default:

mechanisms: login plain cram-md5 digest-md5 plain login

username_format: %Ln

passdb:

driver: sql

args: /usr/local/etc/dovecot-sql.conf

userdb:

driver: sql

args: /usr/local/etc/dovecot-sql.conf

socket:

type: listen

client:

  path: /var/spool/postfix/private/auth

  mode: 432

  user: postfix

  group: postfix

master:

  path: /var/run/dovecot/auth-master

  mode: 384

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