[qtx]

Hi

@Falko:
I did remove the PIDFILE line and restarted saslauthd.
No improvement, though.

@jpieper:
Yes, the PRIVILEGES have been flushed (ceveral times since).
Also, I can connect to mysql with the mail_admin-user (see initial post).

About localhost/127.0.0.1:
I followed Falkos howto, so in /etc/mysql/my.cnf there is:

bind = 127.0.0.1

I tried localhost (then restart everything), but did not help.

Where do you suggest using localhost instead of 127.0.0.1? In which files?

Thank you guys for helping!
QT

BTW.
What works:
Send emails to other domains (via thunderbird).
Receive emails on the host /home/vmail/

What does not work:
Receive emails via using thunderbird.

Errormessage in /var/log/mail.err

May 22 06:49:25 myhost authdaemond: failed to connect to mysql server (server=localhost, userid=mail_admin): Access denied for user 'mail_admin'@'localhost' (using password: YES)
May 22 06:49:25 myhost courierpop3login: authentication error: Input/output error