Greetings,
I'm am learning about running a mail server and I set up a brand new
Ubuntu 14.04 server with postfix and dovecot. I had some initial
problems with dovecot not starting, and then with not having proper
permissions/access to the various directories and files and pipes, etc,
and in the process starting to learn how this thing works.
After searching in web-land I seem to have overcome those issues and
dovecot and postfix both start and accept connections now
(http://wiki2.dovecot.org/TestPop3Installation).
However when I check to see if I can authenticate I get Authentication
Failed. At the time of these login attempts there are no messages added
to syslog or mail.log, dovecot log entries are below.
Note I redacted my test user and password values to 'xxxxx', and my
domain value to 'domain.com'. Also I'm testing with my plain text
password, but I've tried using AUTH PLAIN <base64 encoded uid/pwd>. I
have also tried the setup with a default auth domain, and I've tried
authenticating with and without the domain name as part of the user
name, with the same results. I added the debug settings and
disable_plaintext_auth = no to try to solve this issue.
Here is my test command set:
xxxxx@apacweb:~$ sudo doveadm user xxxxx
field valueuserdb lookup: user xxxxx doesn't exist
and :
xxxxx@apacweb:~$ telnet localhost 110
Trying ::1...
Trying 127.0.0.1...
Connected to localhost.
Escape character is '^]'.
+OK Dovecot (Ubuntu) ready.
user xxxxx
+OK
pass xxxxx
-ERR [AUTH] Authentication failed.
Here is a cut from the dovecot log:
2014-06-08 01:22:10 auth: Error: passwd-file(xxxxx): stat(uid=vmail
gid=vmail home=/home/vmail//xxxxx /etc/dovecot/users) failed: Address
family not supported by protocol
I figure this is the root cause of this issue and the solution to it is
supposedly to tell dovecot to not listen on IPv6 (listen = *), but I did
that and it didn't help (see config).
Here is a cut from the dovecot.info log:
2014-06-08 00:16:25 auth: Debug: auth client connected (pid=3131)
2014-06-08 01:22:10 auth: Debug: Loading modules from directory:
/usr/lib/dovecot/modules/auth
2014-06-08 01:22:10 auth: Debug: Read auth token secret from
/var/run/dovecot//auth-token-secret.dat
2014-06-08 01:22:10 auth: Debug: passwd-file /etc/dovecot/passwd: Read 1
users in 0 secs
2014-06-08 01:22:10 auth: Debug: master in: USER 1 xxxxx
service=doveadm
2014-06-08 01:22:10 auth: Debug: userdb out: NOTFOUND 1
Here is my dovecot config:
# 2.2.9: /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf
# OS: Linux 3.13.0-24-generic x86_64 Ubuntu 14.04 LTS ext4
auth_debug = yes
auth_debug_passwords = yes
auth_mechanisms = plain cram-md5
auth_verbose = yes
base_dir = /var/run/dovecot/
disable_plaintext_auth = no
info_log_path = /var/log/dovecot.info
listen = *
log_path = /var/log/dovecot
log_timestamp = "%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S "
mail_location = maildir:/home/vmail/%d/%n/Maildir
passdb {
args = /etc/dovecot/passwd
driver = passwd-file
}
protocols = imap pop3
service auth {
executable = /usr/lib/dovecot/auth
unix_listener /var/spool/postfix/private/auth-client {
group = postfix
mode = 0666
user = postfix
}
unix_listener auth-userdb {
group = postfix
mode = 0777
user = postfix
}
user = vmail
}
service imap-login {
chroot = login
executable = /usr/lib/dovecot/imap-login
user = dovecot
}
service imap {
executable = /usr/lib/dovecot/imap
}
service pop3-login {
chroot = login
executable = /usr/lib/dovecot/pop3-login
inet_listener pop3 {
address = *
port = 110
}
inet_listener pop3s {
address = *
port = 995
}
user = dovecot
}
service pop3 {
executable = /usr/lib/dovecot/pop3
}
ssl = required
ssl_cert = </etc/ssl/certs/smtpd.crt
ssl_key = </etc/ssl/private/smtpd.key
userdb {
args = uid=vmail gid=vmail home=/home/vmail/%d/%n /etc/dovecot/users
driver = passwd-file
}
valid_chroot_dirs = /var/spool/vmail
protocol pop3 {
pop3_uidl_format = %08Xu%08Xv
}
I'm sure I've done something stupid, but after thrashing about for some
days I haven't been able to figure out what it is.
Regards,
Danny
