Re: SASL auth failure dovecot/postfix
On Tue, Mar 11, 2014 at 02:41:02PM +0100, Tazman Deville wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 11, 2014 at 01:25:39PM +0000, Jonathan Dowland wrote:
> > If mail is not sending, you need to look at the postfix logs and see if
> > there's an explanation for a test mail. dovecot will not be relevant
> > unless you are using send-over-IMAP which is unlikely. Can you share
> > some relevant log lines?
> >
>
> tail of mail.log on same server with above error looks relatively
> normal:
> Mar 11 14:25:54 myownsite dovecot: imap(tonyb@myownsite.me):
> Disconnected: Logged out in=117 out=1469
> Mar 11 14:26:43 myownsite dovecot: imap-login: Login:
> user=<tonyb@myownsite.me>, method=PLAIN, rip=127.0.0.1, lip=127.0.0.1,
> mpid=17024, secured, session=<l0nIq1T0FgB/AAAB>
> Mar 11 14:26:43 myownsite dovecot: imap(tonyb@myownsite.me):
> Disconnected: Logged out in=85 out=708
> Mar 11 14:27:03 myownsite postfix/anvil[16975]: statistics: max
> connection rate 1/60s for (smtp:209.170.84.20) at Mar 11 14:23:43
> Mar 11 14:27:03 myownsite postfix/anvil[16975]: statistics: max
> connection count 1 for (smtp:209.170.84.20) at Mar 11 14:23:43
> Mar 11 14:27:03 myownsite postfix/anvil[16975]: statistics: max cache
> size 1 at Mar 11 14:23:43
>
> both servers show similar in mail.warn:
> Mar 11 13:52:16 myownsite postfix/smtpd[16685]: warning: SASL
> authentication failure: Password verification failed
> Mar 11 13:52:16 myownsite postfix/smtpd[16685]: warning:
> myownsite.me[178.238.226.185]: SASL PLAIN authentication failed:
> authentication failure
> Mar 11 13:57:58 myownsite postfix/smtpd[16797]: warning: SASL
> authentication failure: Password verification failed
> Mar 11 13:57:58 myownsite postfix/smtpd[16797]: warning:
> myownsite.me[178.238.226.185]: SASL PLAIN authentication failed:
> authentication failure
> Mar 11 13:59:51 myownsite postfix/smtpd[16823]: warning: SASL
> authentication failure: Password verification failed
> Mar 11 13:59:51 myownsite postfix/smtpd[16823]: warning:
> myownsite.me[178.238.226.185]: SASL PLAIN authentication failed:
> authentication failure
>
Perhaps this is relevant:
telnet localhost 25
Trying 127.0.0.1...
Connected to localhost.localdomain.
Escape character is '^]'.
220 myownsite.me ESMTP Postfix (Debian/GNU)
ehlo localhost
250-myownsite.me
250-PIPELINING
250-SIZE 30720000
250-VRFY
250-ETRN
250-STARTTLS
250-AUTH PLAIN LOGIN
250-AUTH=PLAIN LOGIN
250-ENHANCEDSTATUSCODES
250-8BITMIME
250 DSN
quit
221 2.0.0 Bye
looks okay there, yes?
taz
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