Re: [exim] One user can't authenticate

On 2013-11-02, yan <yan@???> wrote:
> I have one user who can't send email. She can receive it via dovecot,
> she can log in, but exim refuses to accept her credentials.
>
> From Mozilla Thuderbird:
> 2013-11-02 14:48:09 plain_server authenticator failed for
> mail.seiner.com [192.168.128.2]: 535 Incorrect authentication data
> (set_id=noriko)
>
> From android phone:
> 2013-11-02 14:53:45 plain_server authenticator failed for
> android-f16cd01f484477db.seiner.lan (infraware.co.kr) [192.168.128.131]:
> 535 Incorrect authentication data (set_id=noriko)
> 2013-11-02 14:53:58 TLS error on connection from
> android-f16cd01f484477db.seiner.lan (infraware.co.kr) [192.168.128.131]
> (send): The specified session has been invalidated for some reason.
>
> I am stumped; all other users work fine, and I can't find anything that
> is unusual about her account.
>
> Where can I look? AFAIK exim uses the standard linux authentication,
> and this user can log in, retrieve emails from dovecot, but can't send
> through exim. :headscratch:

are there any unusual charcters in her password or username?

I'd include all control characters, space, colon, backslash,
dollar rightbrace, and hash in that set. ' :\$}#'

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