I appreciated the help I received here. To try to give back a little, I
contributed something I learned to the wiki:
Passwd as a password databasePasswd as a password database on FreeBSD
Thanks again,
Bob
On Sunday, February 5, 2017 10:12 AM, "drbob...@yahoo.com"
wrote:
Hi, everyone,
Hi again, everyone,
Adding SSL seemed to go smoothly, I can check my email now with Thunderbird
with "connection security" set to STARTTLS.
My next issue is receiving emails. Can you help me with that, too?
It works to use "mail" on the command line to send email from one account to
another.
But
Hi, everyone,
Got through for the first time! In fact the trick was to switch to:
passdb {
driver = passwd-file
args = path-to-file-with-encrypted-passwords
}
Thanks for steering me in the right direction. Next I guess is SSL for more
security.
Bob
On Sunday, February 5, 2017 8:14 AM, "
1. The man page I get is slightly different:
% man 5 passwd
PASSWD(5) FreeBSD File Formats Manual PASSWD(5)
NAME
passwd, master.passwd -- format of the password file
DESCRIPTION
The passwd files are the local source of password information. They can
Hi, everyone,
1. As advised in Debugging Authentication, I turned on auth_debug and
auth_debug_passwords, and now in the mail log I get an additional message:
dovecot: auth: passwd(xxx,xxx,<40AjQMFHSLVLGJAC>): invalid password field '*'
Of course neither the password I tried nor the actual passwor
Thanks for replying.
A. configuration:
% dovecot -n
# 2.2.27 (c0f36b0): /usr/local/etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf
# OS: FreeBSD 10.3-RELEASE amd64 ufs
disable_plaintext_auth = no
mail_location = mbox:/var/empty:INBOX=/var/mail/%u:INDEX=MEMORY
mail_privileged_group = mail
namespace inbox {
inbox = y
Hi again,
I see now it's possible to restricting IMAP/POP3 access, but that shouldn't be
enabled. In conf.d/10-auth.conf that's commented out:
#!include auth-deny.conf.ext
Thanks,
Bob
Hi, everyone,
I'm trying to get email working on a server. Web servers I have some experience
with, but this is new for me.
On FreeBSD, with dovecot2 (2.2.27), when I try to check email, Thunderbird says:
Sending of password for user xxx did not succeed.Mail server xxxresponded:
Authentication fa