After a fresh install of exim and dovecot on a new Gentoo system I configured just like before but now I’m having same error dovecot_login authenticator failed for (<client_machin_name>) [45.125.66.123]: 535 Incorrect authentication data (set_id=<User>)
— Gowtham > On 18-May-2019, at 5:50 PM, necktwi <[email protected]> wrote: > > I solved it with > > unix_listener auth-client { > path = /var/run/dovecot/auth-client > mode = 0660 > user = mail > group = mail > } > > in /etc/dovecot/conf.d/10-master.conf > > ... Necktwi > >> On 06-May-2019, at 6:19 PM, Jan Ingvoldstad via Exim-users >> <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> On Mon, Apr 29, 2019 at 10:37 PM necktwi via Exim-users <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> >>> I have also set >>> >>> unix_listener auth-client { >>> mode = 0660 >>> user = mail >>> } >>> >>> in /etc/dovecot/conf.d/10-master.conf >>> >>> I don't understand why dovecot_login authenticator fails though I have >>> given the right username and password to my mail client. >>> Please help me debug the issue. can i make the error: Incorrect >>> authentication data, more verbose? >> >> >> Exim does not have information about the Dovecot internals, so this is >> really a question for Dovecot users. >> >> However, I happen to know that at least with Debian's packaging, Dovecot by >> default logs to a combination of /var/log/mail.info, mail.err, mail.warn, >> and mail.log, depending on your configuration of >> /etc/dovecot/conf.d/10-logging.conf >> >> So check the settings there, and consider enabling e.g. auth_debug = yes >> and auth_verbose = yes, and ask any questions regarding Dovecot auth >> debugging on the relevant Dovecot mailing list. >> >> -- >> Jan >> -- >> ## List details at https://lists.exim.org/mailman/listinfo/exim-users >> ## Exim details at http://www.exim.org/ >> ## Please use the Wiki with this list - http://wiki.exim.org/ > -- ## List details at https://lists.exim.org/mailman/listinfo/exim-users ## Exim details at http://www.exim.org/ ## Please use the Wiki with this list - http://wiki.exim.org/
