[Dovecot] POP3 -ERR Authentication failed.

[Tariq Ismail Dalvi]

Hello guys

I am having problem of pop3 with my mail server I am using postfix-2.3.3
and Dovecot v1.0.7 when i telnet localhost or xyz.net i get following
output

[root at dalvis ~]# telnet mail.xyz.net 110
Trying 192.168.12.14...
Connected to mail.xyz.net (192.168.12.14).
Escape character is '^]'.
+OK Dovecot ready.
user johne at xyz.net
+OK
pass 768tidzx
-ERR Authentication failed.
Connection closed by foreign host.

and my maillog shows

Jun 21 19:25:20 localhost dovecot: pop3-login: Aborted login:
user=<johne at xyz.net>, method=PLAIN, rip=::ffff:192.168.12.14,
lip=::ffff:192.168.12.14, secured

my dovecot.conf is as follow:-

# Remove pop3 things if you don't want them
protocols = imap imaps pop3 pop3s

# It's nice to have separate log files for Dovecot. You could do this
# by changing syslog configuration also, but this is easier.
log_path = /var/log/dovecot.log
info_log_path = /var/log/dovecot-info.log

# Disable SSL for now.
ssl_disable = yes
disable_plaintext_auth = no

# We're using Maildir format
mail_location = maildir:~/Maildir

# If you're using POP3, you'll need this:
pop3_uidl_format = %08Xu%08Xv

# Optimizations:
dotlock_use_excl=yes
maildir_copy_with_hardlinks=yes

# Authentication configuration:
auth_verbose = yes

auth default {
  mechanisms = plain
  passdb passwd-file {
    args = /etc/dovecot/passwd
  }
  userdb static {
    args = uid=vmail gid=vmail home=/var/mail/vmail/%d/%u
  }
}


I shall highly appreciate if anyone shall have a look at it and
let me know what i am doing wrong.

Thank you

 
Best regards.

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