Thanks Timo, set the dovecot log as suggested, and this is what a telnet session gives me now on dovecot.log:
ssl-params: Info: Generating SSL parameters ssl-params: Info: SSL parameters regeneration completed auth: Debug: Loading modules from directory: /usr/lib/dovecot/modules/auth Debug: auth client connected (pid=23352) Debug: client in: AUTH 1 PLAIN service=pop3 secured lip=*.*.*.* rip=*.*.*.* lport=110 rport=59691 resp=<hidden> auth: Debug: Loading modules from directory: /usr/lib/dovecot/modules/auth Debug: pam(user1,*.*.*.*): lookup service=dovecot Debug: pam(user1,*.*.*.*): #1/1 style=1 msg=Password: Debug: client out: OK 1 user=user1 Debug: master in: REQUEST 3611557889 23352 1 769f960369c716c7bd71072c0e Debug: passwd(user1,*.*.*.*): lookup Debug: master out: USER 3611557889 user1 system_groups_user=user1 uid=1000 gid=0 home=/ pop3-login: Info: Login: user=<user1>, method=PLAIN, rip=*.*.*.*, lip=*.*.*.*, mpid=23355, secured pop3(user1): Debug: Effective uid=1000, gid=0, home=/ pop3(user1): Debug: maildir++: root=/var/mail/vmail/user1, index=, control=, inbox=/var/mail/vmail/user1 pop3(user1): Info: Disconnected: Logged out top=0/0, retr=0/0, del=0/0, size=0 When I send an email, Postfix still stores the email in /var/mail/vmail/ us...@domain.com , and Dovecot still looks for that email in /var/mail/vmail/user1 Seriously, what am I not seeing here ? Feels like it's a very simple thing I'm missing.. Could it be that for Postfix the "user" is the whole "us...@domain.com" while for Dovecot it's just "user1" ? Don't they both work on the same variables ? Could this be related to the fact that I have a system user called user1, and I have to tell Dovecot to not look for that one but for us...@domain/com ? On Fri, Dec 31, 2010 at 3:49 PM, Timo Sirainen <t...@iki.fi> wrote: > On 31.12.2010, at 6.55, Seasoul wrote: > > > auth_debug = yes > > auth_verbose = yes > .. > > When I try to login to dovecot via telnet, here's what the log records: > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > dovecot: pop3-login: Login: user=<user>, method=PLAIN, rip=127.0.0.1, > > lip=127.0.0.1, mpid=20333, secured > > Do you really not get any auth debug logs before this message? If not, > maybe your syslog is redirecting them elsewhere. Try setting: > > log_path = /var/log/dovecot.log > > There's no point in guessing what the problem is, because the auth debug > logs would tell exactly what goes wrong. > >
