Re: please help this newbie get started

I appreciated the help I received here. To try to give back a little, I contributed something I learned to the wiki: Passwd as a password databasePasswd as a password database on FreeBSD Thanks again, Bob On Sunday, February 5, 2017 10:12 AM, "drbob...@yahoo.com"

Re: please help this newbie get started

Hi again, everyone, Adding SSL seemed to go smoothly, I can check my email now with Thunderbird with "connection security" set to STARTTLS. My next issue is receiving emails. Can you help me with that, too? It works to use "mail" on the command line to send email from one account to another. But

Re: please help this newbie get started

Hi, everyone, Got through for the first time! In fact the trick was to switch to: passdb {   driver = passwd-file   args = path-to-file-with-encrypted-passwords } Thanks for steering me in the right direction. Next I guess is SSL for more security. Bob On Sunday, February 5, 2017 8:14 AM,

Re: please help this newbie get started

1. The man page I get is slightly different: %    man 5 passwd PASSWD(5) FreeBSD File Formats Manual    PASSWD(5) NAME passwd, master.passwd -- format of the password file DESCRIPTION The passwd files are the local source of password information.  They can   

Re: please help this newbie get started

Hi, everyone, 1. As advised in Debugging Authentication, I turned on auth_debug and auth_debug_passwords, and now in the mail log I get an additional message: dovecot: auth: passwd(xxx,xxx,<40AjQMFHSLVLGJAC>): invalid password field '*' Of course neither the password I tried nor the actual

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Hi again, I see now it's possible to restricting IMAP/POP3 access, but that shouldn't be enabled. In conf.d/10-auth.conf that's commented out: #!include auth-deny.conf.ext Thanks, Bob

please help this newbie get started

Hi, everyone, I'm trying to get email working on a server. Web servers I have some experience with, but this is new for me. On FreeBSD, with dovecot2 (2.2.27), when I try to check email, Thunderbird says: Sending of password for user xxx did not succeed.Mail server xxxresponded: Authentication