dovecot - Mar 2005 - Authentication error after authentication query (for Eudora 5.2 on Mac)

Greetings all, I'm a new user of Dovecot and want to say thanks for the
great software.

I am having a problem at the moment. I run a heterogeneous network with
windows and Mac clients logging into a Fedora Linux 2 box running
sendmail and previously UW-IMAP, but now Dovecot.  I am using strictly
pop3, plain authentication with mbox format.  Every computer in the
network is working fine with this sytem, except 1.  A mac running
Eurdora mail 5.2.  It gives me an Authentication error every time it
tries to get mail.

I telnet into the server and when I skip the AUTH process and just log
in, the server works fine as follows:


[talberts at localhost ~]$ telnet mail.inside.msi 110
Trying 192.168.0.3...
Connected to mail.inside.msi (192.168.0.3).
Escape character is '^]'.
+OK dovecot ready.
user tdazey
+OK
pass ******
+OK Logged in.
quit
+OK Logging out.
Connection closed by foreign host.
[talberts at localhost ~]$

However, when I do the following session:


[talberts at localhost ~]$ telnet mail.inside.msi 110
Trying 192.168.0.3...
Connected to mail.inside.msi (192.168.0.3).
Escape character is '^]'.
+OK dovecot ready.
auth cram_md5
-ERR Unsupported authentication mechanism.
auth login
-ERR Unsupported authentication mechanism.
auth plain
+
user tdazey
-ERR Authentication failed.
user tdazey
+OK
pass ******
+OK Logged in.
quit
+OK Logging out.
Connection closed by foreign host.
[talberts at localhost ~]$ 


I don't need any authentication except plain.  However, when the client
queries the settings, it fails the login.  I tried this on multiple
accounts with the same results.

What do I do to fix this?

On Fri, Mar 11, 2005 at 11:55:07AM -0800, Tim Alberts
wrote:
> Greetings all, I'm a new user of Dovecot and want to say thanks for the
> great software.
> 
> I am having a problem at the moment. I run a heterogeneous network with
> windows and Mac clients logging into a Fedora Linux 2 box running
> sendmail and previously UW-IMAP, but now Dovecot.  I am using strictly
> pop3, plain authentication with mbox format.  Every computer in the
> network is working fine with this sytem, except 1.  A mac running
> Eurdora mail 5.2.  It gives me an Authentication error every time it
> tries to get mail.
I had a single PC running Eudora 5.2 that suddenly stopped
authenticating. I upgraded Eudora and the problem went away. 

If that's the only mail client that isn't working, then either it's
configured wrong, or the executable file is corrupted. At least, those
are my guesses.

Bob

On Fri, 2005-03-11 at 11:55 -0800, Tim Alberts wrote:
> I am having a problem at the moment. I run a heterogeneous network with
> windows and Mac clients logging into a Fedora Linux 2 box running
> sendmail and previously UW-IMAP, but now Dovecot.  I am using strictly
> pop3, plain authentication with mbox format.  Every computer in the
> network is working fine with this sytem, except 1.  A mac running
> Eurdora mail 5.2.  It gives me an Authentication error every time it
> tries to get mail.
What Dovecot version? Eudora+POP3 issues should have been fixed in
0.99.12.

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Well it was that simple.  I upgraded both servers (one 0.99.10, other
0.99.11) to 0.99.13 and everything is working.  Thanks for the input.



On Sat, 2005-03-12 at 22:29 +0200, Timo Sirainen wrote:
> On Fri, 2005-03-11 at 11:55 -0800, Tim Alberts wrote:
> > I am having a problem at the moment. I run a heterogeneous network
with
> > windows and Mac clients logging into a Fedora Linux 2 box running
> > sendmail and previously UW-IMAP, but now Dovecot.  I am using strictly
> > pop3, plain authentication with mbox format.  Every computer in the
> > network is working fine with this sytem, except 1.  A mac running
> > Eurdora mail 5.2.  It gives me an Authentication error every time it
> > tries to get mail.
> 
> What Dovecot version? Eudora+POP3 issues should have been fixed in
> 0.99.12.
>