I recently upgraded to Debian Etch from 3.1. Up until the upgrade I had no problems with my mail server. I had set it up exactly as stated in the Ubuntu version of the Virtual Users And Domains With Postfix, Courier And MySQL (Ubuntu 6.10 Edgy Eft) tutorial. After the upgrade I am unable to login to the mail server either using POP3 or IMAP I get an error stating that the username doesnt exist or the password is incorrect. I have tried searching around the forums and noticed that I am running a newer version of postfix, so I upgraded the mysql-*.cf files to replicate those from the Fedora Core version of the tutorial, but I am still having problems. Has anyone else come across this problem and found a solution? Here is what I am seeing in mail.log when trying to login using imap: Apr 25 23:31:42 reliablenetworx imapd: Connection, ip=[::ffff:127.0.0.1] Apr 25 23:31:42 reliablenetworx imapd: LOGIN FAILED, [email protected], ip=[::ffff:127.0.0.1] Apr 25 23:31:47 reliablenetworx imapd: LOGOUT, ip=[::ffff:127.0.0.1], rcvd=65, sent=332 The error message is almost the same for pop3.
Do you get any errors in your mysql logfile? If you dont have a mysql logfile, please activate logging in the my.cnf file and restart mysql, then try to login to pop3 again and check the logfile for errors.
This is a mail I got two days ago: As Ubuntu Feisty and Debian Etch are very similar, this should work for Debian Etch as well.
I think Ive made the similar changes, restarted everything, and still the same thing. No changes, any other ideas?
Exactly the same, however, I have been watching the mysql.log and ive noticed when I try to log in, it doesn't log any type of mysql query. However, when I send myself an email, I can see all kinds of mysql information. I am trying to login through squirrelmail (imap) and pop3, both saying the username is invalid or the password is wrong.
Issue resolved, somehow courier-authlib-mysql was missing. Possibly from when I upgraded. I got this package installed, everything now works Thanks to everyone who offered advice.
