Postfix/Dovecot plus Evolution Mail

KarolisK · 05-17-2011, 08:35 AM

Hi,

I have installed Postfix(smtp)and Dovecot(pop3/imap) for my mail system on Debian 6.0.1 Both services are running and working good . And just configured Evolution Mail with one user to get all mail from postfix to this mail client program, but when I press Send/Receive I am receiving this error:
Unable to connect to POP server localhost. Error sending password: -ERR Athentification failed. Please enter the pop server password for user@domain on host localhost.
I used google and looking information in config files but can't find (or disable) this password for POP.
All outgoing mail are successfully sent from Evolution mail (client program) to postfix, but no one comes to this client program.

Maybe somebody knows the solution?
Thanks!

moyorakkhi · 05-17-2011, 10:12 AM

Check the username in the server settings of evolution. It usually is: username@somedomain.com. Check you email server settings if it requires the password to be supplied as encrypted.

KarolisK · 05-17-2011, 12:50 PM

I checked the username in settings of evolution, it's the same like you wrote here. But this step is a little bit hard to understand:
Check you email server settings if it requires the password to be supplied as encrypted.
I found mail logs in this directory: /var/log/mail.log and after login fail it says:

Code:

May 17 12:42:32 imone dovecot: pop3-login: Login: user=<karolis>, method=PLAIN, rip=127.0.0.1, lip=127.0.0.1, secured
May 17 12:42:32 imone dovecot: POP3(karolis): mail_location not set and autodetection failed: Mail storage autodetection failed with home=/home/karolis
May 17 12:42:32 imone dovecot: POP3(karolis): Fatal: Namespace initialization failed

maybe it will help you to help me, thanks!

KarolisK · 05-17-2011, 01:54 PM

I made changes in dovecot.conf file and now i'm receiving a little bit shorter error in logs:

Code:

May 17 14:44:21 imone dovecot: pop3-login: Aborted login (auth failed, 1 attempts): user=<karolis@imone.lt>, method=PLAIN, rip=127.0.0.1, lip=127.0.0.1, secured
May 17 14:45:19 imone dovecot: pop3-login: Aborted login (auth failed, 1 attempts): user=<karolis@imone.lt>, method=PLAIN, rip=127.0.0.1, lip=127.0.0.1, secured