[Dovecot] Testing POP3 with telnet - password always wrong
Pascal Volk
user+dovecot at localhost.localdomain.org
Wed May 6 04:19:56 EEST 2009
On 05/06/2009 02:54 AM Timothy Legg wrote:
> …
> legg at debian:~$ telnet 192.168.10.171 110
> Trying 192.168.10.171...
> Connected to 192.168.10.171.
> Escape character is '^]'.
> +OK Dovecot ready.
> USER test at 192.168.10.171
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> +OK
> PASS password1
> -ERR Authentication failed.
>
> But why do I always get the password wrong? I twice set the password for the test user and also restarted Dovecot, but the password is always wrong.
>
> I'm sure there must be something stupid I have overlooked.
>
> Any suggestions?
> …
> Here is some additional data that I am volunteering...
>
> # dovecot -n
> # 1.0.15: /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf
> …
> auth default:
> passdb:
> driver: pam
> userdb:
> driver: passwd
You are using local system users, right? How do log in on your system?
As user at an.ip.add.ress? No?
OK, so drop the @192.168.10.171 part from your mail user name and try again.
If it still does not work, start reading here:
http://wiki.dovecot.org/WhyDoesItNotWork
Regards,
Pascal
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