Note that testing in Telnet fails the password as well, both when specifying the user without a domain and with a domain:
$ telnet mail.someDomain.com 143 Trying x.x.x.x... Connected to mail.someDomain.com. Escape character is '^]'. * OK [CAPABILITY IMAP4rev1 LITERAL+ SASL-IR LOGIN-REFERRALS ID ENABLE IDLE AUTH=PLAIN] Dovecot ready. a login user 12345 a NO [AUTHENTICATIONFAILED] Authentication failed. e logout * BYE Logging out e OK Logout completed. Connection closed by foreign host. $ telnet mail.someDomain.com 143 Trying x.x.x.x... Connected to mail.someDomain.com. Escape character is '^]'. * OK [CAPABILITY IMAP4rev1 LITERAL+ SASL-IR LOGIN-REFERRALS ID ENABLE IDLE AUTH=PLAIN] Dovecot ready. a login u...@somedomain.com 12345 a NO [AUTHENTICATIONFAILED] Authentication failed. * BAD Error in IMAP command received by server. e logout * BYE Logging out e OK Logout completed. Connection closed by foreign host. $ -- Dotan Cohen http://gibberish.co.il http://what-is-what.com