[gentoo-user] Postfix authentication error??

[gentoo-user] Postfix authentication error??

[Darren Grant]

I've been searching for the answer to my problem for most of the day. I 
have a mail server running a local domain, but is ready to add virtual 
domains. postfix + courier imap + cyrus sasl + mysql, etc... following 
the gentoo "virtual mailhosting  system with postfix guide"

Everything seems to be working fine. I can send email to 
users@mydomain.com... the system recognizes the local domain and 
delivers the appropriate emails to /home/user/.maildir/new just like 
it's suppose to. On the actual server I can go into the .maildir and 
view the emails.

When trying to connect remotely with an email client (thunderbird) I 
can't seem to authenticate... and it's driving me crazy. Could someone 
please point me in the right direction?

#tail -f /var/log/messages

Feb  9 15:43:52 myhost imapd: Connection, ip=[::ffff:216.xxx.xxx.xx]
Feb  9 15:43:55 myhost imapd: LOGIN FAILED, user=myuser@mydomain.com, 
ip=[::ffff:216.xxx.xxx.xx]
Feb  9 15:43:55 myhost imapd: authentication error: Input/output error

Where is my configuration problem most likely? In my 
/etc/postfix/main.cf file? or in my courier configs?

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,
Darren
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Re: [gentoo-user] Postfix authentication error??

[Patrick Börjesson]

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On 2006-02-09 15:48, Darren Grant uttered these thoughts:
> When trying to connect remotely with an email client (thunderbird) I 
> can't seem to authenticate... and it's driving me crazy. Could someone 
> please point me in the right direction?
> 
> #tail -f /var/log/messages
> 
> Feb  9 15:43:52 myhost imapd: Connection, ip=[::ffff:216.xxx.xxx.xx]
> Feb  9 15:43:55 myhost imapd: LOGIN FAILED, user=myuser@mydomain.com, 
> ip=[::ffff:216.xxx.xxx.xx]
> Feb  9 15:43:55 myhost imapd: authentication error: Input/output error
> 
> Where is my configuration problem most likely? In my 
> /etc/postfix/main.cf file? or in my courier configs?
> 
> Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Well, you can exclude postfix from the problem since postfix doesn't
supply a imap server. So it's a courier problem. Can't say much more,
but it seems that the imap daemon has trouble connecting to whatever
authentication resource you're using (maybe courier's authdaemon?).

Sorry for not being of more help...

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Re: [gentoo-user] Postfix authentication error?? [SOLVED]

[Darren Grant]

I double-checked my /etc/courier/authlib/authmysqlrc file... making sure 
there was no white-space and that just tabs seperated the fields, and 
then restarted courier-authlib and now everything works great.

On to configuring smtp relaying. :)

Thanks.

Patrick Börjesson wrote:

>On 2006-02-09 15:48, Darren Grant uttered these thoughts:
>  
>
>>When trying to connect remotely with an email client (thunderbird) I 
>>can't seem to authenticate... and it's driving me crazy. Could someone 
>>please point me in the right direction?
>>
>>#tail -f /var/log/messages
>>
>>Feb  9 15:43:52 myhost imapd: Connection, ip=[::ffff:216.xxx.xxx.xx]
>>Feb  9 15:43:55 myhost imapd: LOGIN FAILED, user=myuser@mydomain.com, 
>>ip=[::ffff:216.xxx.xxx.xx]
>>Feb  9 15:43:55 myhost imapd: authentication error: Input/output error
>>
>>Where is my configuration problem most likely? In my 
>>/etc/postfix/main.cf file? or in my courier configs?
>>
>>Any help would be greatly appreciated.
>>    
>>
>Well, you can exclude postfix from the problem since postfix doesn't
>supply a imap server. So it's a courier problem. Can't say much more,
>but it seems that the imap daemon has trouble connecting to whatever
>authentication resource you're using (maybe courier's authdaemon?).
>
>Sorry for not being of more help...
>
>  
>
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