IMAP problem after update

[tparker]

After updating my IMAP server (uw-imap 2002d) users can now no longer check mail with either IMAP nor POP (both using SSL and non-SSL).

The system logs appear with the entries:

Jun 1 19:19:44 [xinetd] START: imap2 pid=5973 from=81.101.209.128
Jun 1 19:19:44 [xinetd] FAIL: imap2 address from=81.101.209.128
Jun 1 19:19:44 [xinetd] EXIT: imap2 pid=5973 duration=0(sec)

I'm assuming that the problem is authentication related, but do not know. I have checked /etc/xinetd.d/imap (and imaps , pops etc...) but they have not been changed. They worked before, on the following settings (allowing for obvious differences between the SSL / non-SSL versions):

service imaps
{
socket_type = stream
wait = no
user = root
server = /usr/sbin/imapd
server_args = /etc/mail/mail.pem
# log_on_success += DURATION USERID
log_on_success += HOST DURATION
log_on_failure += USERID
disable = no
}

On another note, when I originally installed IMAP (months ago, when it worked) I had to change DURATION USERID (the default) to HOST DURATION. I don't actually know what this does, but this change worked. Neither work now.

I do notice that /etc/pam.d has updated imap and pop files since my emerge -u of uw-imap. Problem is, I don't know what was changed or if this has screwed things up. They now read:

#auth required pam_nologin.so
auth required pam_stack.so service=system-auth
account required pam_stack.so service=system-auth
session required pam_stack.so service=system-auth

- the first line was included too, which I have now commented (thinking this would work) but it made no difference.

I'm now out of ideas. Anyone know what's wrong? Webmail continues to work.

Thanks!

Terence

[tparker]

Just for reference to say that i've found the source of the problem... it has nothing to do with uw-imap.

For some reason, /etc/xinetd.conf has been changed such that only_from = localhost. I don't know how that happened but presumably it was with a recent upgrade of xinetd.d (though... it worked after the upgrade UNTIL I updated uw-imap, which shouldn't change xinetd.conf anyway).

But anyways... nevermind... that now reads only_from=0.0.0.0 and all is fine.

[nitro322]

I just wanted to say thanks for the heads-up on this. I got hit by this too, but for some reason it wouldn't even allow connections from 127.0.0.1, so Squirrelmail quit working. I kept thinking it was an IMAP problem, but after reading this post I check xinetd.conf, and sure enough that was it. Thanks!