[Dovecot] sending of password did not succeed

Reindl Harald h.reindl at thelounge.net
Thu Feb 28 19:27:56 EET 2013



Am 28.02.2013 18:20, schrieb Peter Sparkes:
> Hi
> 
> Today I have upgraded my Debian server from lenny to squeeze and my email
> stopped working.
> 
> I am using Dovecot 1.2.15 with exim4.
> 
> Exim4 is working and mail is being delivered to the mailboxes - /home/
> didm.co.uk/peter/Maildir/new etc
> 
> When I try to download emails to my I get
> 
> "sending of password did not succeed, Mail server
> mail.didm.co.ukresponded:Authentication failed"
> 
> and the server Dovecot error log "utime(/home/didm.co.uk/peter/Maildir/tmp)
> failed: Permission denied" etc

and what says "stat /home/didm.co.uk/peter/Maildir/tmp"
or "ls -lha -R /home/didm.co.uk/peter/"?

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