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Old 09-10-2014, 07:24 PM   #1
statguy
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Cannot get dovecot working


OK. I'm feeling like a bit of an idiot since I cannot get dovecot working. I am trying to use my shadow and passwd files for the password and user dbs but I get errors. First, here is my dovecot config. I am using the package from SlackBuilds.

Code:
# dovecot -n
# 2.2.13: /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf
# OS: Linux 3.10.17 x86_64 Slackware 14.1 
auth_debug = yes
auth_verbose = yes
disable_plaintext_auth = no
mail_location = mbox:~/mail:INBOX=/var/spool/mail/%u
namespace inbox {
  inbox = yes
  location = 
  mailbox Drafts {
    special_use = \Drafts
  }
  mailbox Junk {
    special_use = \Junk
  }
  mailbox Sent {
    special_use = \Sent
  }
  mailbox "Sent Messages" {
    special_use = \Sent
  }
  mailbox Trash {
    special_use = \Trash
  }
  prefix = 
}
passdb {
  args = blocking=no
  driver = shadow
}
ssl_cert = </etc/ssl/certs/dovecot.pem
ssl_key = </etc/ssl/private/dovecot.pem
userdb {
  args = blocking=no
  driver = passwd
}
Next, a telnet session.

Code:
$ telnet localhost 143
Trying 127.0.0.1...
Connected to localhost.
Escape character is '^]'.
* OK [CAPABILITY IMAP4rev1 LITERAL+ SASL-IR LOGIN-REFERRALS ID ENABLE IDLE STARTTLS AUTH=PLAIN] Dovecot ready.
a login user password
a NO [AUTHENTICATIONFAILED] Authentication failed.
I used my actual username and password but they are redacted here obviously.

Finally, the maillog for the attempt.

Code:
Sep 10 19:19:50 pi dovecot: auth: Debug: Loading modules from directory: /usr/lib64/dovecot/auth
Sep 10 19:19:50 pi dovecot: auth: Debug: Read auth token secret from /var/run/dovecot/auth-token-secret.dat
Sep 10 19:19:50 pi dovecot: auth: Debug: auth client connected (pid=2233)
Sep 10 19:20:12 pi dovecot: auth: Debug: client in: AUTH^I1^IPLAIN^Iservice=imap^Isecured^Isession=9XA8S74CYAB/AAAB^Ilip=127.0.0.1^Irip=127.0.0.1^Ilport=143^Irport=56672^Iresp=<hidden>
Sep 10 19:20:12 pi dovecot: auth: Debug: shadow(user,127.0.0.1,<9XA8S74CYAB/AAAB>): lookup
Sep 10 19:20:12 pi dovecot: auth: shadow(user,127.0.0.1,<9XA8S74CYAB/AAAB>): unknown user
Sep 10 19:20:14 pi dovecot: auth: Debug: client passdb out: FAIL^I1^Iuser=user
I am probably missing something trivial, but I can't see it nor has google found an answer yet.
 
Old 09-11-2014, 02:14 PM   #2
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My Dovecot(with sieve lang filter) work with this:
Code:
# 2.2.10: /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf                                                                                                                          
# OS: Linux 3.16.2 x86_64 Slackware 14.1                                                                                                                     
auth_cache_size = 10 M                                                                                                                                       
auth_username_chars =                                                                                                                                        
auth_verbose = yes                                                                                                                                           
base_dir = /var/run/dovecot/                                                                                                                                 
default_vsz_limit = 512 M                                                                                                                                    
disable_plaintext_auth = no                                                                                                                                  
hostname = exampledomain.com.ua
listen = 192.168.xx.x                                                                                                                                        
log_path = /var/log/dovecot.log                                                                                                                              
login_trusted_networks = 192.168.xx.x/24                                                                                                                     
mail_location = maildir:~/Maildir                                                                                                                            
managesieve_notify_capability = mailto                                                                                                                       
managesieve_sieve_capability = fileinto reject envelope encoded-character vacation subaddress comparator-i;ascii-numeric relational regex imap4flags copy inc
namespace inbox {                                                                                                                                            
  inbox = yes                                                                                                                                                
  location =                                                                                                                                                 
  mailbox Drafts {                                                                                                                                           
    special_use = \Drafts                                                                                                                                    
  }                                                                                                                                                          
  mailbox Junk {                                                                                                                                             
    special_use = \Junk                                                                                                                                      
  }                                                                                                                                                          
  mailbox Sent {                                                                                                                                             
    special_use = \Sent                                                                                                                                      
  }                                                                                                                                                          
  mailbox "Sent Messages" {                                                                                                                                  
    special_use = \Sent                                                                                                                                      
  }                                                                                                                                                          
  mailbox Trash {                                                                                                                                            
    special_use = \Trash                                                                                                                                     
  }                                                                                                                                                          
  prefix =                                                                                                                                                   
}                                                                                                                                                            
passdb {                                                                                                                                                     
  driver = shadow                                                                                                                                            
}
plugin {                                                                                                                                                     
  sieve = ~/.dovecot.sieve                                                                                                                                   
  sieve_dir = ~/sieve                                                                                                                                        
}                                                                                                                                                            
postmaster_address = postmaster@domainexample.com.ua                                                                                                              
protocols = imap sieve                                                                                                                                       
service imap-login {                                                                                                                                         
  inet_listener imap {                                                                                                                                       
    port = 143                                                                                                                                               
  }                                                                                                                                                          
}                                                                                                                                                            
service managesieve-login {                                                                                                                                  
  inet_listener sieve {                                                                                                                                      
    port = 4190                                                                                                                                              
  }                                                                                                                                                          
}                                                                                                                                                            
service managesieve {                                                                                                                                        
  process_limit = 1024                                                                                                                                       
}                                                                                                                                                            
ssl = no                                                                                                                                                     
userdb {                                                                                                                                                     
  driver = passwd                                                                                                                                            
}                                                                                                                                                            
verbose_proctitle = yes                                                                                                                                      
protocol lda {                                                                                                                                               
  mail_plugins = " sieve"                                                                                                                                    
}                                                                                                                                                            
protocol imap {                                                                                                                                              
  mail_plugins =                                                                                                                                             
}                                                                                                                                                            
protocol sieve {                                                                                                                                             
  mail_max_userip_connections = 10                                                                                                                           
  managesieve_implementation_string = Dovecot Pigeonhole                                                                                                     
  managesieve_max_line_length = 65536                                                                                                                        
}

Last edited by StreamThreader; 09-11-2014 at 02:17 PM.
 
Old 09-19-2014, 05:28 PM   #3
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Sorry for the long delay in responding. The main difference was that I had used 'args = blocking=no' in both the passdb and userdb definitions (which was suggested in the documentation, but I guess I didn't appreciate what it was doing). I removed those arguments and now it works.

Thanks for posting your settings.
 
  


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