Can't authenticate with IMAP

**Jamo** · 03-18-2005

I have courier installed and squirrelmail etc... When I try to login to squirrelmail with a user account it give me an error saying "connection dropped by imap server". When I try to login with an account not on the system it says wrong username or invalid password. courierauthtest does not work either for any account on the system. I looked at courier-config and noticed the arguement --without-authpwd. Shouldn't this be --with-authpwd since this is the module which gets all the password information from my system?

**wassy121** · 03-21-2005

The best way to debug exactly what is happening would be to see the raw transaction. To do this, you can run:

Code:

telnet localhost 143

Then it will prompt you with:

Code:

Trying 0.0.0.0...
Connected to 0.
Escape character is '^&#93;'.
* OK &#91;CAPABILITY IMAP4rev1 UIDPLUS CHILDREN NAMESPACE THREAD=ORDEREDSUBJECT THREAD=REFERENCES SORT QUOTA IDLE ACL ACL2=UNION STARTTLS&#93; Courier-IMAP ready. Copyright 1998-2004 Double Precision, Inc.  See COPYING for distribution information.

Once you see this, type:

Code:

. login username password

This will show you the actual error.

Let us know how this works out.

--
Samuel

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