Hi Timo, Thank you very much. I really appreciate your response!
I have indeed a non-default socket config because I also let exim4 authenticate against it. So I I am not really able to remove the config. What makes me wonder is that the problem just appeared recently. I think I have the config running for 2 years now or so. I provide "doveconf -n" in any case, maybe you can spot an issue? Thanks, Luke # 2.1.7: /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf # OS: Linux 2.6.32-openvz-042stab090.2-amd64 i686 Debian 7.5 auth_mechanisms = plain login auth_verbose = yes log_timestamp = "%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S " mail_location = maildir:~/Maildir mail_privileged_group = mail 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 ihave imapflags namespace { hidden = yes inbox = no list = no location = maildir:~/Maildir-root prefix = separator = . subscriptions = yes type = private } namespace { inbox = yes location = maildir:~/Maildir prefix = INBOX. separator = . subscriptions = yes type = private } namespace { hidden = no inbox = no list = yes location = maildir:/var/mail/public:INDEX=~/Maildir/public prefix = Public. separator = . subscriptions = no type = public } namespace { hidden = no inbox = no list = yes location = maildir:/var/mail/shared:INDEX=~/Maildir/shared:LAYOUT=fs prefix = Shared. separator = . subscriptions = no type = public } passdb { args = /etc/dovecot/%Ls.passwd driver = passwd-file } passdb { args = /etc/dovecot/dovecot-ldap.conf driver = ldap } passdb { args = failure_show_msg=yes dovecotp driver = pam } plugin { acl = vfile sieve = ~/.dovecot.sieve sieve_dir = ~/sieve sieve_extensions = +imapflags sieve_global_path = /etc/dovecot/default.sieve } protocols = sieve imap service auth { unix_listener auth-client { mode = 0666 } user = root } service imap-login { inet_listener imap { port = 0 } } service imap { executable = /usr/local/sbin/dovecot-imap-fix } ssl_ca = </etc/ssl/sub.class1.server.ca.crt ssl_cert = </etc/ssl/mail.crt ssl_key = </etc/ssl/mail.key userdb { driver = prefetch } userdb { args = /etc/dovecot/dovecot-ldap.conf driver = ldap } protocol imap { imap_client_workarounds = tb-extra-mailbox-sep mail_max_userip_connections = 15 mail_plugins = acl } protocol pop3 { pop3_uidl_format = %08Xu%08Xv } protocol lda { hostname = mail.intra.local mail_plugins = sieve postmaster_address = postmaster@intra.local } On 2014-07-10 8:23, Timo Sirainen wrote: > You have misconfigured Dovecot's auth sockets. Providing doveconf -n > output would help figuring out the problem. Or just delete all the > auth-related socket settings from config files and it should work. > > On 9.7.2014, at 0.03, Lukas Haase <lukasha...@gmx.at> wrote: > >> May I gently "push" this? The string "BUG: Authentication client >> sent unknown handshake command" comes from dovecot (presumably it's >> in the source code) so I think it shouldn't be too mysterious >> what's happening here. >> >> Thank you, Luke >> >> On 2014-07-03 19:10, Lukas Haase wrote: >>> Hi, >>> >>> Some time ago my dovecot started to become BUGgy: Evertime I >>> restart the system, dovecot is started but I cannot login. I see >>> the following information in the logs: >>> >>> Jul 4 04:04:36 mail dovecot: auth: >>> passwd-file(user,127.11.91.218,<nfkQjFT9vwCADFra>): no passwd >>> file: /etc/dovecot/imap.passwd Jul 4 04:04:36 mail dovecot: >>> auth: Error: BUG: Authentication client sent unknown handshake >>> command: >>> REQUEST?1183186945?20438?1?a8c7241e7b0778f9f0125da760cd16fa Jul >>> 4 04:04:36 mail dovecot: imap: Error: Authentication server >>> didn't send valid SPID as expected: MECH#011PLAIN#011plaintext >>> Jul 4 04:04:36 mail dovecot: imap: Error: Disconnected from >>> auth server, aborting (client-pid=20438 client-id=1) Jul 4 >>> 04:04:36 mail dovecot: imap-login: Internal login failure >>> (pid=20438 id=1) (internal failure, 1 succesful auths): >>> user=<user>, method=PLAIN, rip=127.11.91.218, lip=73.82.101.172, >>> mpid=20439, TLS, session=<nfkQjFT9vwCADFra> >>> >>> It does not help to restart the client. But when I then restart >>> the server service dovecot restart it works again. >>> >>> But this is very dangerous because the server might reboot and I >>> might not immideately have the chance to restart dovecot >>> manually. >>> >>> What's going on here? >>> >>> mail:/# uname -a Linux mail 2.6.32-openvz-042stab090.2-amd64 #1 >>> SMP Sat Jun 21 00:22:42 MSK 2014 i686 GNU/Linux mail:/# dovecot >>> --version 2.1.7 >>> >>> Thanks, Luke >>> >