From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.54) id 1F7LvU-0000z2-LN for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 10 Feb 2006 00:14:17 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with SMTP id k1A0ClN9019535; Fri, 10 Feb 2006 00:12:47 GMT Received: from nexon.borjesson.homedns.org (h249n9c1o1031.bredband.skanova.com [81.227.92.249]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with ESMTP id k1A07apG014267 for ; Fri, 10 Feb 2006 00:07:36 GMT Received: by nexon.borjesson.homedns.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 0A77667CE1; Fri, 10 Feb 2006 01:07:36 +0100 (CET) Date: Fri, 10 Feb 2006 01:07:36 +0100 From: Patrick =?iso-8859-1?Q?B=F6rjesson?= To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Postfix authentication error?? Message-ID: <20060210000735.GB4855@nexon> References: <43EBD4B6.8040408@monstertech.ca> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="1LKvkjL3sHcu1TtY" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <43EBD4B6.8040408@monstertech.ca> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.11 X-Archives-Salt: 6f488bdc-a53c-4795-9aa9-10a07b06bd89 X-Archives-Hash: 2cfa957dcf39dd0ea77f650dec9bf54b --1LKvkjL3sHcu1TtY Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On 2006-02-09 15:48, Darren Grant uttered these thoughts: > When trying to connect remotely with an email client (thunderbird) I=20 > can't seem to authenticate... and it's driving me crazy. Could someone=20 > please point me in the right direction? >=20 > #tail -f /var/log/messages >=20 > Feb 9 15:43:52 myhost imapd: Connection, ip=3D[::ffff:216.xxx.xxx.xx] > Feb 9 15:43:55 myhost imapd: LOGIN FAILED, user=3Dmyuser@mydomain.com,= =20 > ip=3D[::ffff:216.xxx.xxx.xx] > Feb 9 15:43:55 myhost imapd: authentication error: Input/output error >=20 > Where is my configuration problem most likely? In my=20 > /etc/postfix/main.cf file? or in my courier configs? >=20 > 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... --=20 / Patrick B=F6rjesson \ ------------------- / () The ASCII Ribbon Campaign - against HTML Email \ /\ and proprietary formats. --1LKvkjL3sHcu1TtY Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFD69lHzbh2ByF5Kl0RAhYvAJ4z04khJLZJkR7kZtQB/9Ch3S5pcQCg1BGd vci02sFjxRzsnXLjITXcXjQ= =zHfK -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --1LKvkjL3sHcu1TtY-- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list