On Sat, May 5, 2012 at 11:44 AM, Agnello George <agnello.dso...@gmail.com>wrote:
> > >> You need to configure Postfix to use dovecot as SASL provider. There are >> some Howto's in the wiki. >> >> http://wiki2.dovecot.org/**HowTo/PostfixAndDovecotSASL<http://wiki2.dovecot.org/HowTo/PostfixAndDovecotSASL> >> http://wiki2.dovecot.org/**HowTo/**VirtualUserFlatFilesPostfix<http://wiki2.dovecot.org/HowTo/VirtualUserFlatFilesPostfix> >> >> If you cannot solve it with this please provide dovecot -n, postfix -n >> and logs with auth_debug=yes. >> > > > I had followed the documentation as per . however in the i get the > following error . > > [root@test /]# telnet 192.168.77.36 110 > Trying 192.168.77.36... > Connected to mail.server.co.in (192.168.77.36). > Escape character is '^]'. > +OK Dovecot ready. > user agnello > +OK > pass 123456 > Connection closed by foreign host. > > in the maillog i get the following error : > > May 5 11:30:43 mail dovecot: imap-login: Disconnected (no auth attempts): > rip=192.168.70.12, lip=192.168.77.36 > May 5 11:30:55 mail dovecot: pop3-login: Login: user=<agnello>, > method=PLAIN, rip=192.168.70.12, lip=192.168.77.36, mpid=30400 > May 5 11:30:55 mail dovecot: pop3(agnello): Error: user agnello: Couldn't > drop privileges: User is missing UID (see mail_uid setting) > May 5 11:30:55 mail dovecot: pop3(agnello): Error: Internal error > occurred. Refer to server log for more information. > > > ----------------------------------------------------- > > my confi file details is as follows : > > cat /etc/dovecot/passwd > agnello:{plain}123456 > > > [root@mail ~]# cat /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf > # 2.0.9: /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf > # OS: Linux 2.6.32-71.el6.x86_64 x86_64 CentOS Linux release 6.0 (Final) > auth_verbose = yes > disable_plaintext_auth = no > passdb { > args = scheme=plain /etc/dovecot/passwd > driver = passwd-file > } > protocols = imap pop3 > service auth { > unix_listener /var/spool/postfix/private/auth { > group = postfix > mode = 0660 > user = postfix > } > } > ssl = no > userdb { > driver = static > } > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------- > > > [root@mail ~]# cat /etc/postfix/main.cf > alias_database = hash:/etc/aliases > > these are my configuration files .. > > Can someone help me here > > > thanks :) > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > Regards > Agnello D'souza > > > Ok am sorry was not testing it correctly . Form a remote server i tested the same smtp-auth test [root@test /]# perl -MMIME::Base64 -e 'print encode_base64("\000agnello\000123456")' AGFnbmVsbG8AMTIzNDU2 [root@test /]# telnet 192.168.77.36 25 Trying 192.168.77.36... Connected to mail.ddde.co.in (192.168.77.36). Escape character is '^]'. 220 mail.ddde.co.in ESMTP Postfix 500 5.5.2 Error: bad syntax ehlo testing 250-mail.ddde.co.in 250-PIPELINING 250-SIZE 10240000 250-VRFY 250-ETRN 250-AUTH PLAIN 250-AUTH=PLAIN 250-ENHANCEDSTATUSCODES 250-8BITMIME 250 DSN AUTH PLAIN AGFnbmVsbG8AMTIzNDU2 235 2.7.0 Authentication successful 421 4.4.2 mail.ddde.co.in Error: timeout exceeded Connection closed by foreign host. -- Regards Agnello D'souza
