dovecot - Apr 2008 - Internal login failure

Hi all

My postfix/dovecot installation seems to be working fine - on the
machine. But I cannot connect from the outside by IMAP.

I am desperately searching for the reason of the following error:

bit:/var/log# telnet localhost imap
Trying 127.0.0.1...
Connected to localhost.
Escape character is '^]'.
* OK Dovecot ready.
1 LOGIN test test1
* BYE Internal login failure. Refer to server log for more information.
Connection closed by foreign host.

The PW sould be correct:

bit:/etc/dovecot# grep ^test passwd
test:{PLAIN}test1

/var/log/dovecot-info.log sais (I have removed the last block in the IP):

ovecot: Apr 22 04:27:05 Info: auth(default): client in: AUTH	1	PLAIN
service=IMAP	lip=217.150.250.xxx	rip=127.0.0.1	resp=AHRlc3QAdGVzdDEdovecot: Apr
22 04:27:05 Info: auth(default): client out: OK	1	user=test
dovecot: Apr 22 04:27:05 Info: auth(default): master in: REQUEST	4	4739	1
dovecot: Apr 22 04:27:05 Info: auth(default): master out: USER	4	test
uid=111	gid=8	home=/srv/vmail//test
dovecot: Apr 22 04:27:05 Info: imap-login: Internal login failure:
user=<test>, method=PLAIN, rip=127.0.0.1, lip=217.150.250.xxx


Any ideas what this could be caused by?

Thank you in advance and best regards,
David

Answer to self:

I did not set first_valid_uid explicitely. However:
"Valid UID range for users, defaults to 500 and above."

And mine is below that. Now everything works fine.

David

On Tue, 2008-04-22 at 04:36 +0200, David Andel wrote:
> * BYE Internal login failure. Refer to server log for more information.
> Connection closed by foreign host.
This is an error.
> /var/log/dovecot-info.log sais (I have removed the last block in the IP):
Based on the file name this contains only information messages. Look at
your error log for the error message. See
http://wiki.dovecot.org/Logging

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