[Dovecot] Proxy Problems

[Scott Silva]

on 3-27-2008 11:46 AM Richard Cooper spake the following:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm trying to use dovecot as a proxy as described on 
> http://wiki.dovecot.org/PasswordDatabase/ExtraFields/Proxy but without 
> much success. The problem is that when I send a IMAP login command 
> dovecot is responding with "BYE Internal login failure. Refer to server 
> log for more information." Can anyone help me shed light on this problem?
> 
> Here's the log (Username, password and IPs have been anonymised):
> 
> dovecot: Mar 27 13:07:11 Info: Dovecot v1.0.rc15 starting up
> dovecot: Mar 27 13:07:12 Info: auth(default): passwd-file 
> /root/dovecot-proxy-test.passwd: Read 1 users
> dovecot: Mar 27 13:07:29 Info: auth(default): client in: AUTH    1    
> PLAIN    service=IMAP    lip=192.168.0.1    rip=192.168.0.2    
> resp=WWVzIEkgYW5vbnltaXNlZCB0aGlzIHRvbyA7LSk=
> dovecot: Mar 27 13:07:29 Info: auth(default): client out: OK    1    
> user=test_proxy    proxy    host=192.168.0.3    port=143    pass=password
> dovecot: Mar 27 13:07:29 Info: auth(default): master in: REQUEST    1    
> 11786    1
> dovecot: Mar 27 13:07:29 Error: auth(default): Master request 11786.1 
> not found
> dovecot: Mar 27 13:07:29 Info: auth(default): master out: NOTFOUND    1
> dovecot: Mar 27 13:07:29 Info: imap-login: Internal login failure: 
> user=<test_proxy>, method=PLAIN, rip=192.168.0.2, lip=192.168.0.1
> 
> And here's my config according to dovecot -n
> 
> # /root/dovecot-proxy-test.conf
> base_dir: /var/run/dovecot-proxy-test
> log_path: /dev/stderr
> protocols: imap
> listen: *:10143
> login_dir: /var/run/dovecot-proxy-test/login
> login_executable: /usr/libexec/dovecot/imap-login
> auth default:
>   verbose: yes
>   debug: yes
>   debug_passwords: yes
>   passdb:
>     driver: passwd-file
>     args: /root/dovecot-proxy-test.passwd
>   userdb:
>     driver: static
>     args: uid=0 gid=0
> 
> /root/dovecot-proxy-test.passwd contains a single line:
> 
> test_proxy:::::::proxy=y host=192.168.0.3 port=143
> 
> 
> I am on Cent OS 5 using dovecot version 1.0.rc15 from their official yum 
> repositories. If I connect my client directly to 192.168.0.3:143 using 
> the same username and password everything works correctly.
> 
> Thanks in advance.
> 
> - Richard
> 
Try getting a newer version of dovecot from atrpms.net and see if it works.
Current is 1.0.13, at least a year newer then the release candidate you are using.

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