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IMAP client you can't be sure if the problem is with the client's
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configuration or Dovecot's configuration. See<TestInstallation.txt> (or
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<TestPop3Installation.txt>).
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* Are you using an older version than v1.0? RHEL 5 and Debian Etch distribute
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v1.0.rc15, and there has been a LOT of fixes since then. If you have a
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problem, see if NEWS [http://dovecot.org/doc/NEWS] file mentions anything
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related to it. There are also<binary packages> [PrebuiltBinaries.txt]
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available for newer versions.
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It says password mismatch
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* Are you using an older version than v1.0? RHEL 5.0 and Debian Etch
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distribute v1.0.rc15, and there have been a LOT of fixes since then. If you
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have a problem, see if NEWS [http://dovecot.org/doc/NEWS] file mentions
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anything related to it. There are also<binary packages>
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[PrebuiltBinaries.txt] available for newer versions.
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It says "Authentication failed"
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First of all enable 'auth_debug_passwords=yes' and see if the logs show what
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the problem is. For non-PAM setups it should contain all the information needed
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to solve the problem. If it's trying to use a wrong password scheme, you can
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change that. See<Authentication.PasswordSchemes.txt>.
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If you're using <PAM> [PasswordDatabase.PAM.txt]:
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* Make sure that dovecot-auth is running as root (assuming it's using
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* Unfortunately PAM's error messages aren't always all that helpful in
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figuring out what exactly the problem is.
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* Usually the problem is that you don't have a correctly named file in
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'/etc/pam.d/'. See <PasswordDatabase.PAM.txt>
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For non-PAM set 'auth_debug_passwords=yes' and look at what it says in the
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logs. If it's trying to use a wrong password scheme, you can change that.
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See<Authentication.PasswordSchemes.txt>
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'/etc/pam.d/'. See <PasswordDatabase.PAM.txt>.
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It says Can't load certificate
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And the key isn't password protection and you get an error like:
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If the key isn't password protected and you get an error like:
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Sep 29 01:33:54 mail dovecot: imap-login: Can't load certificate file
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Sep 29 01:33:54 mail dovecot: child 27253 (login) returned error 89
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You've mixed up the ssl_cert_file and ssl_key_file directives in your config
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You may have mixed up the 'ssl_cert_file' and 'ssl_key_file' settings in the
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config file. (v1.1.4+ mentions this in the error message.)
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User's IMAP connection gets unexpectedly closed while retrieving headers of a
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And the log looks like:
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Sep 12 16:10:34 hostname dovecot: IMAP(username): block_alloc(): Out of memory
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Sep 12 16:10:34 hostname dovecot: child 17717 (imap) returned error 83 (Out of
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---%<-------------------------------------------------------------------------
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You may need to increase the 'mail_process_size' setting in the config file.
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(v1.1.4+ mentions this setting in the latter error message.)
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