[SDBUG] Authorization problem on email server

[Gregory Sutter]

On 2006-07-08 14:33 -1000, Al Plant <webmaster at hawaiidakine.com> wrote:
>
> FreeBSD 6.1
> I have installed sendmail imap and pop3. I  tried installing dovecot. I 
> can still send from the admin at hdk5.net user to anywhere on the inet. 
> However, I get a bad authentication passwd err for the same user when I 
> try to download his mail.
> The server box has ssh and I can get onto it with the password assigned 
> with no problem. Doesn't the dovecot use the same account passwd for the 
> account? Or do I have to enable ssl to use the ssh passwrd system which 
> is encrypted? I just left ssl off to run unencrypted for testing.

The (/usr/local/etc/)dovecot.conf file controls how dovecot handles
authentication.  Look for the auth_userdb and auth_passdb settings.
Also check the links referred to in the comments in that config file.

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