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On Thu, 28 Feb 2013, Peter Sparkes wrote:

Exim4 is working and mail is being delivered to the mailboxes - /home/
didm.co.uk/peter/Maildir/new etc

When I try to download emails to my I get

"sending of password did not succeed, Mail server
mail.didm.co.ukresponded:Authentication failed"

and the server Dovecot error log "utime(/home/didm.co.uk/peter/Maildir/tmp)
failed: Permission denied" etc

Hmm, are you sure, that the Dovecot log message is related to the login attempt?

Can you check how many login/imap/pop3 connections there are for user "peter"?

- -- Steffen Kaiser
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