Hi,
I'm trying to use dovecot as a proxy as described on http://wiki.dovecot.org/PasswordDatabase/ExtraFields/Proxy
but without much success. The problem is that when I send a IMAP
login command dovecot is responding with "BYE Internal login failure.
Refer to server log for more information." Can anyone help me shed
light on this problem?
Here's the log (Username, password and IPs have been anonymised):
dovecot: Mar 27 13:07:11 Info: Dovecot v1.0.rc15 starting up
dovecot: Mar 27 13:07:12 Info: auth(default): passwd-file /root/
dovecot-proxy-test.passwd: Read 1 users
dovecot: Mar 27 13:07:29 Info: auth(default): client in: AUTH 1 PLAIN
service=IMAP lip=192.168.0.1 rip=192.168.0.2
resp=WWVzIEkgYW5vbnltaXNlZCB0aGlzIHRvbyA7LSk=
dovecot: Mar 27 13:07:29 Info: auth(default): client out: OK 1
user=test_proxy proxy host=192.168.0.3 port=143 pass=password
dovecot: Mar 27 13:07:29 Info: auth(default): master in: REQUEST 1
11786 1
dovecot: Mar 27 13:07:29 Error: auth(default): Master request 11786.1
not found
dovecot: Mar 27 13:07:29 Info: auth(default): master out: NOTFOUND 1
dovecot: Mar 27 13:07:29 Info: imap-login: Internal login failure:
user=<test_proxy>, method=PLAIN, rip=192.168.0.2, lip=192.168.0.1
And here's my config according to dovecot -n
# /root/dovecot-proxy-test.conf
base_dir: /var/run/dovecot-proxy-test
log_path: /dev/stderr
protocols: imap
listen: *:10143
login_dir: /var/run/dovecot-proxy-test/login
login_executable: /usr/libexec/dovecot/imap-login
auth default:
verbose: yes
debug: yes
debug_passwords: yes
passdb:
driver: passwd-file
args: /root/dovecot-proxy-test.passwd
userdb:
driver: static
args: uid=0 gid=0
/root/dovecot-proxy-test.passwd contains a single line:
test_proxy:::::::proxy=y host=192.168.0.3 port=143
I am on Cent OS 5 using dovecot version 1.0.rc15 from their official
yum repositories. If I connect my client directly to 192.168.0.3:143
using the same username and password everything works correctly.
Thanks in advance.
- Richard
