So youre sure the mail isn't being delivered to the users maildir? but
you just can't access it with IMAP.
You can test authentication if using saslauthd by typing 'sudo
testsaslauthd -u username -p password -s smtp'. Just some thoughts.
On Wed, 5 Oct 2011 19:11:31 -0400, Ed Hochman wrote:
Hi,
I'm stumped. I can access the postfix server to read my mail.
BUT I'm the only user that can.
Everyone else get rejected.
Here's the syslog entry for another user:
...dovecot: pop3-login: Disconnected (auth failed, 1 attempts):
user=<jmarino>, method=PLAIN, rip=192.168.0.51, lip=192.168.0.189
And here's an entry for me:
...dovecot: pop3-login: Login: user=<ed>, method=PLAIN,
rip=192.168.0.51, lip=192.168.0.189
So ONLY I am able to get my mail. And this is consistent.
The other users and passwords are valid. I've re-set them just to be
sure.
I suspect it's a rights issue but I've checked the rights for all
/var/mail files and they're all the same except the owner of the file
is
the actual owner.
I also checked all the rights for the files in /etc/dovecot. They
all
look OK and they all have root/root for the owner and user.
Since I installed the system and did all the editing of the
configuration files it's possible, but unlikely, that I'm the owner
or
group of some key file. I've looked for that but found nothing
suspicious.
Is it possible I may have given myself root access? I don't see how.
My UID is 1000. Does the fact I'm the first user (per my UID) make a
difference? I would think not.
So I'm stumped. I don't have a clue as to where to look or what to
do next.
Any thoughts will be greatly appreciated.
This is Dovecot 1.2.15 on Ubuntu 11.04. A new/clean install.
Plaintext passwords are allowed.
Here's dovecot -n
# 1.2.15: /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf
# OS: Linux 2.6.38-11-generic i686 Ubuntu 11.04
protocols: pop3
disable_plaintext_auth: no
login_dir: /var/run/dovecot/login
login_executable: /usr/lib/dovecot/pop3-login
mail_privileged_group: mail
mbox_write_locks: fcntl dotlock
mail_executable: /usr/lib/dovecot/pop3
mail_plugin_dir: /usr/lib/dovecot/modules/pop3
auth default:
passdb:
driver: passwd
passdb:
driver: passwd-file
args: /etc/passwd.dovecot
userdb:
driver: passwd
Thanks
