failed login message

[Steffen Kaiser]

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On Fri, 28 Nov 2014, Rajesh M wrote:

> just to recap the issue was about squirrelmail giving a wrong message : "connection dropped by imap server" instead of "invalid user or password"
>
> as advised i connected using command line on both my old and new servers, and have posted the details including the output of dovevcot -n.

Is this the OLD or CURRENT server and what about the other one?
> 1) command prompt login. i put wrong password
>
> telnet x.x.x.x 143
>
> * OK [CAPABILITY IMAP4rev1 LITERAL+ SASL-IR LOGIN-REFERRALS ID ENABLE IDLE START
> TLS AUTH=PLAIN AUTH=LOGIN AUTH=DIGEST-MD5 AUTH=CRAM-MD5] ready.
>
> 1 login acc at mydomain.com wrongpass
>
> 1 NO [AUTHENTICATIONFAILED] Authentication failed.

at this point: Does Dovecot drop the telnet session or is it still open?

> 2) DOVECOT LOG output
>
> CURRENT SERVER
> Nov 28 08:48:39 imap-login: Info: Disconnected (auth failed, 1 attempts in 72 secs): user=<acc at mydomain.com, method=PLAIN, rip=120.62.202.70, lip=103.241.181.155, session=<4PxKs+II2QB4PspG>
>
> OLD SERVER
> Nov 28 09:06:08 imap-login: Info: Disconnected (auth failed, 1 attempts): user=<acc at mydomain.com>, method=PLAIN, rip=120.62.202.70, lip=72.35.76.156

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Steffen Kaiser
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