On 2019-07-15, necktwi via Exim-users <[email protected]> wrote: > From my mac mail client I've connected to remote exim+dovecot server. Since > few weeks back I was not able to send mail but able to receive. > > exim in /var/log/messages says: > Jul 14 15:22:15 RPi3B exim[3576]: 2019-07-14 20:52:15 dovecot_plain > authenticator failed for ([xx.xx.xx.xx]) [yy.yy.yy.yy]: 535 Incorrect > authentication data (set_id=necktwi) > > dovecot in /var/log/dovecot.log says: > Jul 14 19:40:27 auth: Debug: client in: AUTH 1 LOGIN service=smtp > rip=yy.yy.yy.yy lip=xx.xx.xx.xx nologin resp= (previous base64 data may > contain sensitive data) > Jul 14 19:40:27 auth: Debug: client passdb out: CONT 1 VXNlcm5hbWU6 > Jul 14 19:40:27 auth: Debug: auth client connected (pid=0) > Jul 14 19:40:27 auth: Debug: client in: AUTH 1 PLAIN service=smtp secured > rip=xx.xx.xx.xx lip=yy.yy.yy.yy nologin > resp=aeVja333aQeuZWerdHdpAeRecmezaG9lcw== (previous base64 data may contain > sensitive data) > Jul 14 19:40:27 auth: Debug: policy(necktwi,xx.xx.xx.xx): Policy check action > is continue > Jul 14 19:40:27 auth-worker(11866): Debug: pam(necktwi,xx.xx.xx.xx): lookup > service=smtp > Jul 14 19:40:27 auth-worker(11866): Info: pam(necktwi,xx.xx.xx.xx): > pam_authenticate() failed: Authentication failure (Password mismatch?) (given > password: xxxxxxx) > > (log is obfuscated) > > Is it the problem with dovecot or exim? > Should exim contact dovecot prior to sending the mail? > I have also tried windows mail client with same error.
It's been a few yers since I did this, from what I recall. Exim requires access to the SASLAUTH socket, as exim is not running as root you need to ensure that the path to the socket and the socket itself are accessable by the user that exim runs as. maybe something here? https://wiki.dovecot.org/HowTo/EximAndDovecotSASL you might need to add the exim user to the group that the owns the SASLAUTH socket -- When I tried casting out nines I made a hash of it. -- ## List details at https://lists.exim.org/mailman/listinfo/exim-users ## Exim details at http://www.exim.org/ ## Please use the Wiki with this list - http://wiki.exim.org/
