Problem setting up Dovecot for POP3
I'm trying to set up dovecot to serve POP3 mail on my Core 3 box. Everything looks fine except when I try to use my mail client on an external box I get the following error (where '<myserver>' is my server name):
The POP server “<myserver>” rejected the password for user “nick@<myserver>” Please re-enter your password, or cancel. I have left the dovecot.conf file with all the default settings. The settings in my mail program are: Port: 110 Authentication: password The user name and password entered are definitely correct and are the same as I use to log in to the FC3 server itself. In /var/log/mailog I get this: Apr 3 12:39:46 <localhost> dovecot-auth: PAM: pam_authenticate(nick@<myserver>) failed: Authentication failure Apr 3 12:39:46 <localhost> pop3-login: Aborted login [<serverIPaddr>] Does anyone have any idea what's going on? I've been on dovecot's web site but can't find anything useful. Thanks in advance... Nick |
Hi!
You should check the dovetcot.conf file for the authentication method and the database used for it...I use authenthication plain and passwd and it works fine. regards tokehs |
Hi tokehs,
Yes, here's what I have: auth_mechanisms = plain auth_userdb = passwd I don't know why it doesn't work. Perhaps I need to change some kind of permissions somewhere? Nick |
ok, then it might be quite simple... in the client's settings please check if authentication is used under smtp... if so then turn it off and let's hope...
regards tokehs |
Hi, actually I've tried every possible combination. The only one that even comes close is the basic "password" option because that at least asks for a password. Don't forget, I'm trying to retrieve mail through POP3 or IMAP, the SMTP is working brilliantly. :-(
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