Having some difficulty with this one:

I have Postfix setup, with a web interface for postfixadmin. Both Dovecot and Postfix are setup to use the same MySQL database to authenticate users. Only SSL connections are allowed, so I use PLAIN/cleartext as my password type.

Setting up users works correctly from Postfixadmin, and Dovecot recognizes the users and their respective directories, however, when I try to connect from an email client (Outlook in this case) I get the following errors in my log after enabling verbose debugging and auth logging:

dovecot: Jul 05 17:00:00 Info: auth(default): client in: AUTH 1 PLAIN service=POP3 secured lip=192.168.0.10 .... dovecot: Jul 05 17:00:00 Info: auth-worker(default) sql(admin@domain.com,192.168.0.15): query: .... dovecot: Jul 05 17:00:00 Info: auth-worker(default) sql(admin@domain.com,192.168.0.15): Password mismatch dovecot: Jul 05 17:00:00 Info: auth-worker(default) sql(admin@domain.com,192.168.0.15): PLAIN-MD5 (testingpassword) != 'testingpassword' dovecot: Jul 05 17:00:00 Info: auth(default): client out: FAIL 1 user=admin@domain.com dovecot: Jul 05 17:00:00 Info: pop3-login: Disconnected: user=admin@domain.com, method=PLAIN, rip=192.168. ....

Any suggestions?

It seems like the passwords match, as it prints them both and they are the same, but for some reason it is failing when comparing them... I'm at a loss, and I can't seem to find anyone else who has had quite this issue.

CentOS 4.3 if that helps, newest builds of dovecot and postfix downloaded and compiled today, both correctly with mysql and sasl support.

I appreciate any input..

• Brad