On Sun, May 9, 2010 at 9:20 AM, Martin Müller <[email protected]> wrote:
> hi,
>
> I want to use courier-mta to handle my incoming mails and courier-pop and
> imap for clients connecing to my server. system is ubuntu 10.04. following
> some tutorials i have accomplished that users can login via pop and imap.
> nevertheless on port 25 one can't login (Authentication failed) and every
> time a mail is sent to an address that is in hosteddomains and
> esmtpacceptmailfor.dir i get an error entry in the log like that:
>
> May  8 20:24:55 india896 courieresmtpd: authdaemon: s_connect() failed:
> Permission denied

What is your output if you run the following command from the commandline

authtest [email protected]

> Has someone got an idea what i can try to solve this poblem

I would suspect that your authentication backend isn't running

> (btw why does
> accepting mail need a login anyway?) ?

It is not necessarily authenticating the sender, it needs to know that
the user exists before accepting the email thus eliminating the need
for a backscatter bounce, and it also needs to find the users homedir
to deliver the mail to.

Harry.

> Thanks for answers in advance,
>
> Martin.
>
>
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