Thanks for your reply Steffen. Well I basically uninstalled everything and started from scratch. it now works just fine. I guess I messed something up along the way the first time. Thanks Antoine
Le 20/02/2017 à 09:32, Steffen Kaiser a écrit : > On Sat, 18 Feb 2017, Antoine Sirven wrote: > > > I've set up a postfix +dovecot configuration on my debian jessie. > > But I have a connection issue. When I try to connect from thunderbird it > > doesn not work. When I check out my debug logs I get : > > auth-worker(22252): Info: pam(myuser,hostIP): pam_authenticate() > > failed: Authentication failure (password mismatch?) (given password: > > correctPassword) > > > Running doveadm auth test tells me I can authenticate with the same > > password. > > So I tried connecting via openssl. > > When I connect from my local host, everything goes fine : > > * OK [CAPABILITY IMAP4rev1 LITERAL+ SASL-IR LOGIN-REFERRALS ID ENABLE > > IDLE AUTH=PLAIN AUTH=LOGIN AUTH=CRAM-MD5] Dovecot ready. > > a login myUser myPassword > > a OK [CAPABILITY IMAP4rev1 LITERAL+ SASL-IR LOGIN-REFERRALS ID ENABLE > > IDLE SORT SORT=DISPLAY THREAD=REFERENCES THREAD=REFS > > THREAD=ORDEREDSUBJECT MULTIAPPEND URL-PARTIAL CATENATE UNSELECT CHILDREN > > NAMESPACE UIDPLUS LIST-EXTENDED I18NLEVEL=1 CONDSTORE QRESYNC ESEARCH > > ESORT SEARCHRES WITHIN CONTEXT=SEARCH LIST-STATUS SPECIAL-USE BINARY > > MOVE] Logged in > > > > But when I run the same thing from my remote laptop, I never get any > > reply from the imap server. It's as if the request wasn't reaching the > > server. Although I do get a first reply from the server, I just can't > > log in. > > * OK [CAPABILITY IMAP4rev1 LITERAL+ SASL-IR LOGIN-REFERRALS ID ENABLE > > IDLE AUTH=PLAIN AUTH=LOGIN AUTH=CRAM-MD5] Dovecot ready. > > a login myUser myPassword > > > (... and then nothing...) > > > I would: > > 1) sniff the connection on the mail server, if there is traffic after > sending the login > > 2) test if you can log in locally while the remote connection hangs > > 3) does PAM performs some IP checks? > > -- Steffen Kaiser