I installed postfix with this howto http://www.howtoforge.com/virtual-us...ysql-centos5.1 When I try to check a mail account, (with thunderbird) it says Sending of password did not succeed. Mail server XXX responded: Authertication failed. and /var/log/maillog shows after I hit cancel Sep 19 14:49:29 www dovecot: pop3-login: Disconnected: user=<[email protected]>, method=PLAIN, rip=::ffff:69.81.22.27, lip=::ffff:64.27.11.50, TLS The password is encrypted in the database. am I missing something with this mail server setup? Does Tbird need
Please compare your dovecot configuration with the one from the tutorial. Also make sure that SELinux is switched off.
selinux is not enabled Dovecot (courier-pop3 ??) looks ok... I can connect via telnet locally. [root@www ~]# telnet localhost pop3 Trying 127.0.0.1... Connected to localhost.localdomain (127.0.0.1). Escape character is '^]'. +OK Dovecot ready. it is connecting... just not authenticating. any other ideas?
It doesn't look like there are any transactions being sent to the the DB. I can see other transactions going through but nothing for mail. Thoughts?
There are no password failures nor ANY entries in the mysql log for this. I went through page two again http://www.howtoforge.com/virtual-users-and-domains-postfix-courier-mysql-centos5.1-p2 and made sure my six files look like the samples... changing the ID and password. All looks good. I can log into mysql with the same ID and password and access the mail database. The only thing that is different with theses instructions compared to what I did was the UID/GID of vmail is 1001 instead of 5000. So I changed it where necessary in the instructions.
Are you sure that you've installed Courier? From your logs it seems as if you're running Dovecot... What's the output of Code: netstat -tap ?
You are the man! I don't know how that happened. I stopped Dovecot and started courier-imap and viola... I was able to log in and mail started rolling into thunderbird.
