[Dovecot] Testing POP3 with telnet - password always wrong

Pascal Volk
Wed, 06 May 2009 01:19:56 -0000

On 05/06/2009 02:54 AM Timothy Legg wrote:
> ?
> legg at debian:~$ telnet 192.168.10.171 110
> Trying 192.168.10.171...
> Connected to 192.168.10.171.
> Escape character is '^]'.
> +OK Dovecot ready.
> USER test at 192.168.10.171
           ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> +OK
> PASS password1
> -ERR Authentication failed.
>
> But why do I always get the password wrong?  I twice set the password for
the test user and also restarted Dovecot, but the password is always wrong.
>
> I'm sure there must be something stupid I have overlooked.
>
> Any suggestions?
> ?
> Here is some additional data that I am volunteering...
>
> # dovecot -n
> # 1.0.15: /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf
> ?
> auth default:
>   passdb:
>     driver: pam
>   userdb:
>     driver: passwd

You are using local system users, right? How do log in on your system?
As user at an.ip.add.ress? No?
OK, so drop the @192.168.10.171 part from your mail user name and try again.

If it still does not work, start reading here:
http://wiki.dovecot.org/WhyDoesItNotWork


Regards,
Pascal
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