Mailserver Broken...

palmer · Guru Joined: 17 Nov 2004 Posts: 322 Location: Berkeley, CA

I have emerged to the newest version of:
courier-authlib (0.53)
courier-imap (4.0.1)
postfix (2.1.5-r2)

Now when I try to connect with thunderbird (pop3) it says:
Sending of password did not succeed. Mail server 192.168.5.1 responded:
Temporary problem, please try again later

Squirrelmail (imap) says:
ERROR : Connection dropped by imap-server.

I have tried rebooting the server, and restarting the servies a few times
Telnet will work (so they are running...)

Does anyone know what is wrong, or what the old versions were, and if I can downgrade?

-palmem

servermonk · Apprentice Joined: 07 Nov 2003 Posts: 182 Location: MI

What does /var/log/mail.log say about your login? also, what is the output of netstat -pln ? It's probably a config file problem and/or your imap/auth daemons are not running proper.
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nobspangle · Posted: Sat Feb 05, 2005 9:04 pm Post subject:

first delete /etc/init.d/authdaemond
then edit /etc/courier/authlib/authdaemonrc
find the authmodulelist line and change it so it reads

servermonk · Apprentice Joined: 07 Nov 2003 Posts: 182 Location: MI

Just noticed the new ebuild states:

palmer · Guru Joined: 17 Nov 2004 Posts: 322 Location: Berkeley, CA

removing the file did not help (luckily I moved it, so it wasn gone...)

editing the file (then edit /etc/courier/authlib/authdaemonrc) and restarting (without deleting the file) worked great!

Thanks a ton
-palmem

nobspangle · Posted: Sat Feb 05, 2005 11:52 pm Post subject:

you need to delete the old init script otherwise you have two services providing authdaemond

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jafar00 · n00b Joined: 02 Sep 2004 Posts: 58 Location: Cairo, Egypt

You guys rock! This fix is just what I needed. Luckily I came here first for the answer. This is what makes Gentoo the best distro ever!

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solatis · Posted: Mon Feb 07, 2005 4:05 pm Post subject:

jafar00 · n00b Joined: 02 Sep 2004 Posts: 58 Location: Cairo, Egypt

Maybe it shouldn't have happened :oops:

but at least with Gentoo and the Linux community in general, a fix can always be found quickly.

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billium · Apprentice Joined: 22 Mar 2003 Posts: 185

Thanks NobSpangle

Billy

honeymak · Guru Joined: 30 Dec 2002 Posts: 595

authvchkpw is no longer working?
my server is using vpopmail with mysql support
i saw the error was method=PLAIN where vchkpw using password type to encrypt the field.......
how to change that PLAIN to password?
i saw that log before........
in the old version of courier
and login to vpopmail..........vchkpw will tell the first try PLAIN failed
then password success (that password means password encryption method in mysql)

any clue to fix this?
the new courier did compiled libauthvchkpw stuff
just how to use it?

thanks
:oops:

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j-m · Retired Dev Joined: 31 Oct 2004 Posts: 975

honeymak · Guru Joined: 30 Dec 2002 Posts: 595

it just doesn't work in my machine

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honeymak · Guru Joined: 30 Dec 2002 Posts: 595

sorry for that i couldn't wait for a reply and i did emerge back down to 3.0.8

but i got some clue is that
vchkpw2userdb and makeuserdb

but i still can't get thru the problem in log "method=PLAIN"
i think this could be sth weird

just dunno how to fix this
>.<

if any guys get thru it.......pls tell

pkg: qmail + qmail-scanner + vpopmail w/mysql + courier-imap + qmailadmin
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becon · Posted: Wed Feb 16, 2005 3:30 am Post subject: Many thanks!

This helped me alot. Thanks!

honeymak · Guru Joined: 30 Dec 2002 Posts: 595

so can u get thru it?.......i mean vpopmail(w/ mysql) with the new courier-imap
or any docs about that?

:cry:

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eternauta · Posted: Fri Oct 14, 2005 4:56 pm Post subject: Thanks

Hello guys,
Thank you very much for your help with this post.
It worked perfectly for my courier mail server (peple were about to kill root here...)

Carlos
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thoughtform · l33t Joined: 24 May 2004 Posts: 600

i upgraded a lot over the past month and after 36 days uptime i decided to install a new kernel.
couldn't log into squirrelmail but this post fixed it.
thanks!

nunopedrosilva · Posted: Sun Oct 30, 2005 12:26 pm Post subject:

I'm using

authmodulelist="authmysql authpam authshadow"

and when I login says imap droped...

without authmysql works...

why?

I want with mysql...

besides that, when I sucessfully login, I send a mail, and when I click "send" it just stays there and I can't connect again to the squirrel server...