Re: [Dovecot] Probs authenticating to Dovecot

2013-04-16 Thread Professa Dementia
Turn on the following directives: auth_verbose = yes auth_debug_passwords = yes Restart, then reconnect with your mail client. You should have much better logging to determine the source of the problem. Dem

Re: [Dovecot] Probs authenticating to Dovecot

2013-04-16 Thread Daniel Reinhardt
It would appear that port 110 is not opened on your firewall, and is that IP address one that is assigned to your External WAN interface on your Comcast connection? The VM should have a Privately assigned IP address as given by the VM Software. On Tue, Apr 16, 2013 at 4:12 AM, Kris Magnusson wro

Re: [Dovecot] Probs authenticating to Dovecot

2013-04-16 Thread Kris Magnusson
root@mail:/etc/dovecot# telnet mail 110 Trying 50.196.172.zzz... telnet: Unable to connect to remote host: Connection timed out On Apr 16, 2013, at 1:10 AM, Daniel Reinhardt wrote: > What was the output of the telnet localhost 110? > > Did it present any error messages? > > > On Tue, Apr 16,

Re: [Dovecot] Probs authenticating to Dovecot

2013-04-16 Thread Daniel Reinhardt
What was the output of the telnet localhost 110? Did it present any error messages? On Tue, Apr 16, 2013 at 3:43 AM, Kris Magnusson wrote: > Thanks much. I prefer Debian for server work anyway. > > Best, Kris > > On Apr 16, 2013, at 12:29 AM, Noel Butler wrote: > > > On Mon, 2013-04-15 at 23:3

Re: [Dovecot] Probs authenticating to Dovecot

2013-04-16 Thread Kris Magnusson
Thanks much. I prefer Debian for server work anyway. Best, Kris On Apr 16, 2013, at 12:29 AM, Noel Butler wrote: > On Mon, 2013-04-15 at 23:38 -0700, Kris Magnusson wrote: > > >> I will blow this VM away and start from scratch. Unless anyone has any >> concrete suggestions I can implement b

Re: [Dovecot] Probs authenticating to Dovecot

2013-04-16 Thread Noel Butler
On Mon, 2013-04-15 at 23:38 -0700, Kris Magnusson wrote: > I will blow this VM away and start from scratch. Unless anyone has any > concrete suggestions I can implement before then that I can use to salvage a > day's worth of work. > If it comes down to it, I just asked on IRC for you if any

Re: [Dovecot] Probs authenticating to Dovecot

2013-04-16 Thread Steffen Kaiser
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, 15 Apr 2013, Kris Magnusson wrote: I will blow this VM away and start from scratch. Unless anyone has any concrete suggestions I can implement before then that I can use to salvage a day's worth of work. If you want to debug this config

Re: [Dovecot] Probs authenticating to Dovecot

2013-04-16 Thread Noel Butler
On Mon, 2013-04-15 at 23:38 -0700, Kris Magnusson wrote: > > and introducing a DB into the mix just made things an order of magnitude more > complicated. I'd rather use OpenLDAP, since I can write JNDI code to figure > out what's going on with a directory and even add/modify/delete entries to/

Re: [Dovecot] Probs authenticating to Dovecot

2013-04-15 Thread Kris Magnusson
I have triple (trippple) checked the recommended configuration and it is per the how-to. The SQL is likely fine. I'm not a SQL maven, but I'm not dumb about SQL, and it passed a couple of inspections. You're right that telnet localhost 110 doesn't work. postconf -a reports that it knows about

Re: [Dovecot] Probs authenticating to Dovecot

2013-04-15 Thread Noel Butler
On Mon, 2013-04-15 at 21:43 -0700, Kris Magnusson wrote: > Hi folks. I have set up a Ubuntu 12.04 VM with Dovecot, Postfix, MySQL, > amavisd, and ISPConfig 3. > tatic IP. I followed the instructions at howtoforge.com to set up and > configure this Somebody else recently used some howto f

[Dovecot] Probs authenticating to Dovecot

2013-04-15 Thread Kris Magnusson
Hi folks. I have set up a Ubuntu 12.04 VM with Dovecot, Postfix, MySQL, amavisd, and ISPConfig 3. The VM has tons of RAM and disk and processor and is permanently connected to the Internet with a static IP. I followed the instructions at howtoforge.com to set up and configure this VM and am usin