cant login to Dovecot

[Walter Ulmke]

On 2018-06-13 00:09, Joseph Tam wrote:
> On Tue, 12 Jun 2018, Walter Ulmke wrote:
> 
>> ... and just want to login using the standard Linux login
> 
> Depends on what you which "standard" you mean but I'll just assume
> you're using PAM, as suggested by your config.
> 
>> auth_mechanisms = plain login digest-md5 cram-md5 ntlm rpa apop 
>> anonymous
> 
> Looks like you did a kitchen sink configuration in hopes something will 
> work,
> but it's probably interfering.  Just "plain" and "login" is fine.
> 
>> passdb {
>>  driver = pam
>> }
> 
> I don't use PAM, but it looks like you may be a few parameters
> short.  Did you install pam/dovecot config?
> 
> 	https://wiki2.dovecot.org/PasswordDatabase/PAM
> 
> Joseph Tam <jtam.home at gmail.com>



this is driving me mad. I still can't login.

I started with a fresh doveconfig directory and implemented the 
sufǵgestions in the above Document.

Now doveconfig -n gives me:

managesieve_notify_capability = mailto
managesieve_sieve_capability = fileinto reject envelope 
encoded-character vacation subaddress comparator-i;ascii-numeric 
relational regex imap4flags copy include variables body enotify 
environment mailbox date index ihave duplicate mime foreverypart 
extracttext
namespace inbox {
   inbox = yes
   location =
   prefix =
}
passdb {
   driver = pam
}
plugin {
   sieve = file:~/sieve;active=~/.dovecot.sieve
}
ssl_cipher_list = 
ALL:!aNULL:!eNULL:!EXPORT:!DES:!3DES:!MD5:!PSK:!RC4:!ADH:!LOW at STRENGTH
ssl_options = no_compression
ssl_prefer_server_ciphers = yes
userdb {
   driver = passwd
}


dovecot status says:

Jun 13 15:27:32 ulmke2 systemd[1]: Started Dovecot IMAP/POP3 email 
server.
Jun 13 15:27:32 ulmke2 systemd[1]: dovecot.service: Main process exited, 
code=exited,>
Jun 13 15:27:32 ulmke2 dovecot[14622]: Error: service(imap-login): 
listen(*, 993) fai>
Jun 13 15:27:32 ulmke2 dovecot[14622]: Fatal: Failed to start listeners
Jun 13 15:27:32 ulmke2 systemd[1]: dovecot.service: Unit entered failed 
state.
Jun 13 15:27:32 ulmke2 systemd[1]: dovecot.service: Failed with result 
'exit-code'.



At least before it started ....


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