[Dovecot] sending of password did not succeed
Reindl Harald
h.reindl at thelounge.net
Thu Feb 28 19:42:40 EET 2013
PLEASE do NOT response off-list on mailing-lists
and in general NOT use HTML messages for lists
as you can see below what happens quting them
i am using dovecot ONLY as proxy/auth-provider
so my intention was to help others get more infos
Am 28.02.2013 18:37, schrieb Peter Sparkes:
> Hi Harald
> Thanks for replying
>
> stat /home/didm.co.uk/peter/Maildir/tmp <http://didm.co.uk/peter/Maildir/tmp> gives
>
> File: `/home/didm.co.uk/peter/Maildir/tmp <http://didm.co.uk/peter/Maildir/tmp>'
> Size: 4096 Blocks: 8 IO Block: 4096 directory
> Device: 901h/2305d Inode: 13836957 Links: 2
> Access: (0755/drwxr-xr-x) Uid: ( 1223/ peter) Gid: ( 1108/didm.co.uk <http://didm.co.uk>)
> Access: 2013-02-28 04:36:36.000000000 +0000
> Modify: 2013-02-28 17:08:22.000000000 +0000
> Change: 2013-02-28 17:08:22.000000000 +0000
>
> ls -lha -R /home/didm.co.uk/peter/ <http://didm.co.uk/peter/> ouputs a long list part of which is
>
> /home/didm.co.uk/peter/Maildir/new <http://didm.co.uk/peter/Maildir/new>:
> total 844K
> drwxr-xr-x 2 peter didm.co.uk <http://didm.co.uk> 4.0K Feb 28 17:08 .
> drwxr-xr-x 8 peter didm.co.uk <http://didm.co.uk> 4.0K Feb 28 08:01 ..
> -rw------- 1 peter peter 12K Feb 28 08:41 1362040901.H489863P3132.didm-a.dh.bytemark.co.uk
> <http://1362040901.H489863P3132.didm-a.dh.bytemark.co.uk>
> -rw------- 1 peter peter 3.2K Feb 28 08:46 1362041185.H453645P3137.didm-a.dh.bytemark.co.uk
> <http://1362041185.H453645P3137.didm-a.dh.bytemark.co.uk>
> -rw------- 1 peter peter 2.8K Feb 28 08:59 1362041976.H290857P3254.didm-a.dh.bytemark.co.uk
> <http://1362041976.H290857P3254.didm-a.dh.bytemark.co.uk>
> -rw------- 1 peter peter 2.1K Feb 28 09:01 1362042100.H237350P3263.didm-a.dh.bytemark.co.uk
> <http://1362042100.H237350P3263.didm-a.dh.bytemark.co.uk>
> -rw------- 1 peter peter 303K Feb 28 09:05 1362042315.H1078P3266.didm-a.dh.bytemark.co.uk
> <http://1362042315.H1078P3266.didm-a.dh.bytemark.co.uk>
> -rw------- 1 peter peter 29K Feb 28 09:16 1362042969.H141065P4039.didm-a.dh.bytemark.co.uk
> <http://1362042969.H141065P4039.didm-a.dh.bytemark.co.uk>
> -rw------- 1 peter peter 15K Feb 28 09:29 1362043772.H424096P4070.didm-a.dh.bytemark.co.uk
> <http://1362043772.H424096P4070.didm-a.dh.bytemark.co.uk>
> -rw------- 1 peter peter 485 Feb 28 09:34 1362044091.H313425P4077.didm-a.dh.bytemark.co.uk
> <http://1362044091.H313425P4077.didm-a.dh.bytemark.co.uk>
> -rw------- 1 peter peter 11K Feb 28 09:44 1362044642.H822470P4880.didm-a.dh.bytemark.co.uk
> <http://1362044642.H822470P4880.didm-a.dh.bytemark.co.uk>
> -rw------- 1 peter peter 2.4K Feb 28 11:38 1362051505.H650923P7747.didm-a.dh.bytemark.co.uk
> <http://1362051505.H650923P7747.didm-a.dh.bytemark.co.uk>
> -rw------- 1 peter peter 3.6K Feb 28 12:03 1362053012.H602533P8671.didm-a.dh.bytemark.co.uk
> <http://1362053012.H602533P8671.didm-a.dh.bytemark.co.uk>
> -rw------- 1 peter peter 27K Feb 28 12:44 1362055442.H625207P10611.didm-a.dh.bytemark.co.uk
> <http://1362055442.H625207P10611.didm-a.dh.bytemark.co.uk>
> -rw------- 1 peter peter 40K Feb 28 13:14 1362057256.H571100P11598.didm-a.dh.bytemark.co.uk
> <http://1362057256.H571100P11598.didm-a.dh.bytemark.co.uk>
> -rw------- 1 peter peter 83K Feb 28 13:15 1362057339.H568650P11605.didm-a.dh.bytemark.co.uk
> <http://1362057339.H568650P11605.didm-a.dh.bytemark.co.uk>
> -rw------- 1 peter peter 9.3K Feb 28 14:05 1362060354.H307724P12580.didm-a.dh.bytemark.co.uk
> <http://1362060354.H307724P12580.didm-a.dh.bytemark.co.uk>
> -rw------- 1 peter peter 16K Feb 28 14:25 1362061514.H650991P13554.didm-a.dh.bytemark.co.uk
> <http://1362061514.H650991P13554.didm-a.dh.bytemark.co.uk>
> -rw------- 1 peter peter 9.0K Feb 28 15:47 1362066474.H389245P16304.didm-a.dh.bytemark.co.uk
> <http://1362066474.H389245P16304.didm-a.dh.bytemark.co.uk>
> -rw------- 1 peter peter 46K Feb 28 15:53 1362066827.H631037P16382.didm-a.dh.bytemark.co.uk
> <http://1362066827.H631037P16382.didm-a.dh.bytemark.co.uk>
> -rw------- 1 peter peter 3.9K Feb 28 15:56 1362067018.H98463P16401.didm-a.dh.bytemark.co.uk
> <http://1362067018.H98463P16401.didm-a.dh.bytemark.co.uk>
> -rw------- 1 peter peter 20K Feb 28 16:15 1362068100.H694502P17251.didm-a.dh.bytemark.co.uk
> <http://1362068100.H694502P17251.didm-a.dh.bytemark.co.uk>
> -rw------- 1 peter peter 44K Feb 28 16:27 1362068836.H298454P17321.didm-a.dh.bytemark.co.uk
> <http://1362068836.H298454P17321.didm-a.dh.bytemark.co.uk>
> -rw------- 1 peter peter 53K Feb 28 17:06 1362071183.H205812P18284.didm-a.dh.bytemark.co.uk
> <http://1362071183.H205812P18284.didm-a.dh.bytemark.co.uk>
> -rw------- 1 peter peter 53K Feb 28 17:08 1362071302.H916902P18293.didm-a.dh.bytemark.co.uk
> <http://1362071302.H916902P18293.didm-a.dh.bytemark.co.uk>
>
>
> On Thu, Feb 28, 2013 at 5:27 PM, Reindl Harald <h.reindl at thelounge.net <mailto:h.reindl at thelounge.net>> wrote:
>
>
>
> 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 <http://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 <http://didm.co.uk/peter/Maildir/tmp>)
> > failed: Permission denied" etc
>
> and what says "stat /home/didm.co.uk/peter/Maildir/tmp <http://didm.co.uk/peter/Maildir/tmp>"
> or "ls -lha -R /home/didm.co.uk/peter/ <http://didm.co.uk/peter/>"?
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