Fellow techies,
OK... This is going to go down as one of those "D'Oh!" moments in
the world of computers. Boy, do I feel dumb...
In short: I found the problem. One miserable little line in
'dovecot.conf' called 'auth_default_realm =.'
I had this set to 'bluefeathertech.com,' thinking it was necessary to
do so. I was wrong, at least for my environment, and the stupid clues were right
in front of me in the logfile all the time!
For the benefit of others who may run into this: Setting a domain name in this
entry causes that domain name to be automatically appended to usernames when
they log in. No wonder nothing ever matched in /etc/passwd!
My deepest thanks to Frank Cusack for giving me the idea. Something he said in
his post, in response to my initial one, got me thinking about things getting
appended to the user name, and the rest is history.
pop3 and pop3s both work just fine now, thanks. ;-)
Keep the peace(es).
-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
Bruce Lane, Owner & Head Hardware Heavy,
Blue Feather Technologies -- http://www.bluefeathertech.com
kyrrin (at) bluefeathertech do/t c=o=m
"If Salvador Dali had owned a computer, would it have been equipped with
surreal ports?"
