can't check mail after new install

[jag7720]

I installed postfix with this howto

http://www.howtoforge.com/virtual-us...ysql-centos5.1

When I try to check a mail account, (with thunderbird) it says

Sending of password did not succeed. Mail server XXX responded: Authertication failed.

and /var/log/maillog shows after I hit cancel

Sep 19 14:49:29 www dovecot: pop3-login: Disconnected: user=<jason@hammersoup.com>, method=PLAIN, rip=::ffff:69.81.22.27, lip=::ffff:64.27.11.50, TLS

The password is encrypted in the database.

am I missing something with this mail server setup?
Does Tbird need

[falko]

Please compare your dovecot configuration with the one from the tutorial. Also make sure that SELinux is switched off.

[jag7720]

selinux is not enabled

Dovecot (courier-pop3 ??) looks ok...

I can connect via telnet locally.

[root@www ~]# telnet localhost pop3
Trying 127.0.0.1...
Connected to localhost.localdomain (127.0.0.1).
Escape character is '^]'.
+OK Dovecot ready.

it is connecting... just not authenticating.

any other ideas?

[marpada]

Enable MySQL query log, and see what query is been sent to the database, if any ;)

[jag7720]

It doesn't look like there are any transactions being sent to the the DB. I can see other transactions going through but nothing for mail.

Thoughts?

[marpada]

Double check your dovecont-mysql config (hostname,user,password), and check MySQL logs for password errors.

[jag7720]

There are no password failures nor ANY entries in the mysql log for this.

I went through page two again
http://www.howtoforge.com/virtual-users-and-domains-postfix-courier-mysql-centos5.1-p2

and made sure my six files look like the samples... changing the ID and password. All looks good.

I can log into mysql with the same ID and password and access the mail database.

The only thing that is different with theses instructions compared to what I did was the UID/GID of vmail is 1001 instead of 5000. So I changed it where necessary in the instructions.

[jag7720]

Bump....

anyone got any ideas on this?

[falko]

Are you sure that you've installed Courier? From your logs it seems as if you're running Dovecot...
What's the output of netstat -tap?

[jag7720]

You are the man! I don't know how that happened.


I stopped Dovecot and started courier-imap and viola... I was able to log in and mail started rolling into thunderbird.