When a user tries to authenticate itself, the first time vchkpw fails with:
"Dec 6 21:50:08 [vpopmail] vchkpw-smtp: password fail"
but then it succeeds immediatly after:
"Dec 6 21:50:13 [vpopmail] vchkpw-smtp: (PLAIN) login success"
This is very annoying, besides the fact that this only happens with Thunderbird, with other e-mail clients they give an error message and the connection is terminated. Is there any way to solve this thing?
It looks like the client is trying CRAM-MD5, failing, and then using PLAIN authentication.
You probably have an older patch, or a version problem between the smtp-auth patch and vpopmail. The older patch sent the information in the incorrect order, and vpopmail was written to accept it in that order. We fixed vpopmail for the 5.4.0 release, but it required updating to the correct SMTP AUTH patch.
If you're using vpopmail 5.4.0 and later, make sure you're using an up-to-date patch that passes the MD5 challenge and response in the correct order. The patch in vpopmail's contrib directory works properly.
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