Latest Dovecot in 20060201 breaks imap
John Summerfied
debian at herakles.homelinux.org
Wed Feb 1 18:15:20 UTC 2006
Steven Haigh wrote:
> On 02/02/2006, at 2:20 AM, Andy Burns wrote:
>
>> Steven Haigh wrote:
>>
>>> Do we know exactly what changed in this update?
>>
>>
>> Mark McLoughlin pointed out this ...
>>
>> http://wiki.dovecot.org/UpgradingDovecot
>
>
> I don't believe this is the case - as I wasn't using a verion 0.99
> config to start with. As that site states, I tried the following:
>
> # grep -v '^ *#' /etc/dovecot.conf|grep -v ^$|less
> protocols = imap imaps pop3 pop3s
> listen = *
> ssl_listen = *
> ssl_cert_file = /etc/pki/dovecot/certs/dovecot.pem
> ssl_key_file = /etc/pki/dovecot/private/dovecot.pem
> mbox_read_locks = fcntl
> mbox_write_locks = fcntl
> protocol imap {
> }
>
> protocol pop3 {
>
> }
> auth default {
> mechanisms = plain
> passdb pam {
> }
> userdb passwd {
> }
> user = root
> }
>
> It seems to be something between the versions that makes some mail
> clients not like the IMAP login banner and stops the client from authing.
>
> When running the Connection Doctor from within Mail, it states "Trying
> to log into this IMAP account failed. Please make sure the username and
> password are correct". During this test, the maillog just shows:
>
> Feb 2 02:30:46 zeus dovecot: imap-login: Aborted login:
> rip=203.56.246.84, lip=203.56.246.81
>
> I know the username and password are correct - as all I need to change
> is the Use SSL option and I can then login to the mailbox in question.
At times like these you need...
tcpdump
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Cheers
John
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