Dovecot IMAP - Eudora problem! beta release?

[yoyomax]

Directadmin not writing passwd file with userdb info

With the default dovecot installation /etc/dovecot.conf file:
I got this using the Eudora email client:
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IMAP command failed
Authentication failed
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So what is the problem here?
Has directadmin really done their homework with this dovecot thing or is this still a beta release??

I think it looks like a beta release because it sure doesn't work out of the box in my case.

 

[nobaloney]

Eudora is telling you the problem; it can't get authenticated.

What kind of authentication is Eudora doing?

Yes, DirectAdmin and a lot of other folk are now using Dovecot; the homework is done and it's an excellent server.

If you're still using a beta release of Dovecot, update it.

There are things it doesn't support. Try a plain-text authentication.

Jeff

 

[yoyomax]

missing userdb info

I think it's not a problem with Eudora. I did some more research and found this in the mail logs:
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Jan 1 23:16:18 galaxy1 dovecot[25647]: auth(default): passwd-file /etc/virtual/xxx.net/passwd: User websales is missing userdb info
Jan 1 23:16:18 galaxy1 dovecot[25647]: user [email protected]: Logins with UID 0 not permitted
Jan 1 23:16:25 galaxy1 dovecot[25647]: user [email protected]: Logins with UID 0 not permitted
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Some others in the forum had the same problem and said it got fixed by doing the conversion to dovecot method. But I tried that too and it is still not fixed.

Why won't directadmin create a passwd file with the userdb info?

 

[yoyomax]

ok, problem fixed now

I had to reboot the whole server before directadmin finally reloaded the new config file with the dovecot=1 setting.

It would not reload the new configuration with stop, start, restart or reload!

 

[nobaloney]

For some reason your directadmin daemon wasn't getting properly restarted. Were you attempting to restart dovecot or directadmin?

Jeff