After a fresh install of exim and dovecot on a new Gentoo system I configured just like before but now I’m having same error
dovecot_login authenticator failed for (<client_machin_name>) [45.125.66.123]: 535 Incorrect authentication data (set_id=<User>)
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Gowtham
> On 18-May-2019, at 5:50 PM, necktwi <necktwi@???> wrote:
>
> I solved it with
>
> unix_listener auth-client {
> path = /var/run/dovecot/auth-client
> mode = 0660
> user = mail
> group = mail
> }
>
> in /etc/dovecot/conf.d/10-master.conf
>
> ... Necktwi
>
>> On 06-May-2019, at 6:19 PM, Jan Ingvoldstad via Exim-users <exim-users@???> wrote:
>>
>> On Mon, Apr 29, 2019 at 10:37 PM necktwi via Exim-users <exim-users@???>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> I have also set
>>>
>>> unix_listener auth-client {
>>> mode = 0660
>>> user = mail
>>> }
>>>
>>> in /etc/dovecot/conf.d/10-master.conf
>>>
>>> I don't understand why dovecot_login authenticator fails though I have
>>> given the right username and password to my mail client.
>>> Please help me debug the issue. can i make the error: Incorrect
>>> authentication data, more verbose?
>>
>>
>> Exim does not have information about the Dovecot internals, so this is
>> really a question for Dovecot users.
>>
>> However, I happen to know that at least with Debian's packaging, Dovecot by
>> default logs to a combination of /var/log/mail.info, mail.err, mail.warn,
>> and mail.log, depending on your configuration of
>> /etc/dovecot/conf.d/10-logging.conf
>>
>> So check the settings there, and consider enabling e.g. auth_debug = yes
>> and auth_verbose = yes, and ask any questions regarding Dovecot auth
>> debugging on the relevant Dovecot mailing list.
>>
>> --
>> Jan
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