Ok, I think I have that figured out.

I made the following mods:

disable_plaintext_auth = no pop3_uidl_format = %08Xu%08Xv

and it seems to work.

Now...about those enhanced logging capabilities. As promised, I see the enhanced logging.

What does TOP and RETR mean? (I checked the manual first)

Cliff

-----Original Message----- From: Cliff Hayes [mailto:chayes@afo.net] Sent: Thursday, November 03, 2005 1:05 PM To: Chris Wakelin Subject: RE: [Dovecot] How to log POP3 events

Logs say (with enhanced debugging turned on):

Nov 3 12:58:38 sendmail dovecot: pop3-login: Login failed: Plaintext authentication disabled

-----Original Message----- From: dovecot-bounces@dovecot.org [mailto:dovecot-bounces@dovecot.org]On Behalf Of Chris Wakelin Sent: Thursday, November 03, 2005 12:56 PM To: Cliff Hayes Cc: dovecot@dovecot.org Subject: Re: [Dovecot] How to log POP3 events

Hmm, so what appears in the logs when you fail to authenticate? Have you tried the "debug" POP client :) ?

telnet server 110

+OK University of Reading POP3 Server USER chris +OK PASS chrispassword +OK Logged in LIST 1 +OK 1 1234 QUIT +OK Logging out.

Chris

Cliff Hayes wrote:

Yes, that's what I have. I also found this:

userdb prefetch { }

I must have missed that, so I commented that out and still had the same problem.

There is also this

user = root

in the auth default section.

Cliff

-----Original Message----- From: dovecot-bounces@dovecot.org [mailto:dovecot-bounces@dovecot.org]On Behalf Of Chris Wakelin Sent: Thursday, November 03, 2005 11:27 AM To: Cliff Hayes Cc: dovecot@dovecot.org Subject: Re: [Dovecot] How to log POP3 events

So what do you have for passdb and userdb?

They should look something like

auth default { mechanisms = plain

passdb shadow { }

userdb passwd { }

...

(Earlier versions of 1.0, e.g. 1.0-stable, have just

passdb shadow userdb passwd

)

Chris

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