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1. The man page I get is slightly different: %??? man 5 passwd PASSWD(5)???????????????? FreeBSD File Formats Manual??????????????? PASSWD(5) NAME ???? passwd, master.passwd -- format of the password file DESCRIPTION ???? The passwd files are the local source of password information.? They can ???? be used in conjunction with the Hesiod domains `passwd' and `uid', and ???? the NIS maps

...e "Check that it's allowing remote logins" section. telnet gives me an error: -ERR [AUTH] Authentication failed. which I expect, because I have telnet turned off. Does that mean I can't use plaintext authentication? Thanks, Bob On Saturday, February 4, 2017 8:37 AM, "drbobllc at yahoo.com" <drbobllc at yahoo.com> wrote: And thanks for the link to that Troubleshooting section. I didn't know that was there and will take a look at it now.

Am 4. Februar 2017 00:16:01 MEZ schrieb drbobllc at yahoo.com: > Hi again, >I see now it's possible to restricting IMAP/POP3 access, but that >shouldn't be enabled. In conf.d/10-auth.conf that's commented out: > >#!include auth-deny.conf.ext Please provide doveconf -n output together with a description of your problem....

Am 5. Februar 2017 06:55:34 MEZ schrieb drbobllc at yahoo.com: >Hi, everyone, >1. As advised in?Debugging Authentication, I turned on auth_debug and >auth_debug_passwords, and now in the mail log I get an additional >message: >dovecot: auth: passwd(xxx,xxx,<40AjQMFHSLVLGJAC>): invalid password >field '*' >Of cou...

...everyone, Got through for the first time! In fact the trick was to switch to: passdb { ? driver = passwd-file ? args = path-to-file-with-encrypted-passwords } Thanks for steering me in the right direction. Next I guess is SSL for more security. Bob On Sunday, February 5, 2017 8:14 AM, "drbobllc at yahoo.com" <drbobllc at yahoo.com> wrote: Do I need to tell dovecot to check master.passwd instead of passwd? 2. Is my (simple) passdb OK? passdb { ? args = blocking=no ? driver = passwd }

Hi, everyone, I'm trying to get email working on a server. Web servers I have some experience with, but this is new for me. On FreeBSD, with dovecot2 (2.2.27), when I try to check email, Thunderbird says: Sending of password for user xxx did not succeed.Mail server xxxresponded: Authentication failed. And on the server, in the mail log, there's a message: dovecot: pop3-login: Disconnected

...t;www>, method=PLAIN And thanks for the link to that Troubleshooting section. I didn't know that was there and will take a look at it now. Bob On Saturday, February 4, 2017 3:37 AM, Christian Kivalo <ml+dovecot at valo.at> wrote: Am 4. Februar 2017 00:16:01 MEZ schrieb drbobllc at yahoo.com: > Hi again, >I see now it's possible to restricting IMAP/POP3 access, but that >shouldn't be enabled. In conf.d/10-auth.conf that's commented out: > >#!include auth-deny.conf.ext Please provide doveconf -n output together with a description of your problem....

Hi again, I see now it's possible to restricting IMAP/POP3 access, but that shouldn't be enabled. In conf.d/10-auth.conf that's commented out: #!include auth-deny.conf.ext Thanks, Bob