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From: Darren Grant <dgrant@×××××××××××.ca>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Postfix authentication error?? [SOLVED]
Date: Fri, 10 Feb 2006 00:20:36
Message-Id: 43EBDAE4.40402@monstertech.ca
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Postfix authentication error?? by "Patrick Börjesson"
1 I double-checked my /etc/courier/authlib/authmysqlrc file... making sure
2 there was no white-space and that just tabs seperated the fields, and
3 then restarted courier-authlib and now everything works great.
4
5 On to configuring smtp relaying. :)
6
7 Thanks.
8
9 Patrick Börjesson wrote:
10
11 >On 2006-02-09 15:48, Darren Grant uttered these thoughts:
12 >
13 >
14 >>When trying to connect remotely with an email client (thunderbird) I
15 >>can't seem to authenticate... and it's driving me crazy. Could someone
16 >>please point me in the right direction?
17 >>
18 >>#tail -f /var/log/messages
19 >>
20 >>Feb 9 15:43:52 myhost imapd: Connection, ip=[::ffff:216.xxx.xxx.xx]
21 >>Feb 9 15:43:55 myhost imapd: LOGIN FAILED, user=myuser@××××××××.com,
22 >>ip=[::ffff:216.xxx.xxx.xx]
23 >>Feb 9 15:43:55 myhost imapd: authentication error: Input/output error
24 >>
25 >>Where is my configuration problem most likely? In my
26 >>/etc/postfix/main.cf file? or in my courier configs?
27 >>
28 >>Any help would be greatly appreciated.
29 >>
30 >>
31 >Well, you can exclude postfix from the problem since postfix doesn't
32 >supply a imap server. So it's a courier problem. Can't say much more,
33 >but it seems that the imap daemon has trouble connecting to whatever
34 >authentication resource you're using (maybe courier's authdaemon?).
35 >
36 >Sorry for not being of more help...
37 >
38 >
39 >
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