Password problem

[Zemira]

I have just started using the permanent email account that Direct Admin automatically sets up. I have added this account also to Thunderbird. I have done this before using a different account and it works fine. After I put my password in i recieve this message

Sending the password did not succeed. Mail server mail.medamec.com responded: bad login

That password works fine when I use it to sign into the SquirrelMail. Can anyone tell me where I might have gone wrong.

Thanks
Zemira

 

[Zemira]

The problem has now been fixed.

 

[danielzelisko]

password problem

Hello,

We have a simillar problem. Would you explain how you fixed it?

thanks, regards
danielz

 

[freshmint]

This also happened to me and I found out that the cause for this is the password on /home/admin/.shadow differs from the one on /etc/shadow for the admin user. Check if that's the case for you:

cat /home/admin/.shadow
cat /etc/shadow | grep admin

At first I thought it was a DirectAdmin bug, but after a better thought I may have used passwd on the terminal to change the admin password instead of changing it on DirectAdmin, thus the /home/admin/.shadow didn't get updated.

Probably updating the admin password by DirectAdmin may fix your problem.

Well, this only happened with the exim while sending an email (smtp authentication).