686 Part V . Running Servers Login Failures (Adelphia web hosting)
686 Part V . Running Servers Login Failures When Connecting to Courier Aside from genuine password errors (which can be remedied by entering the correct password in the mail client), there are also a few other conditions that can result in login failures. Some of these conditions will also result in temporary delivery problems. A normal login failure will result in a log entry that looks similar to this: courierpop3login: LOGIN FAILED, ip=[::ffff:1.2.3.4] In this case, a user from IP 1.2.3.4 entered the wrong username or password. Several of the other errors that may occur will not be logged to the mail log, which means that you may have to test them by connecting manually to the POP3 service (from the mail server, or from a remote machine) and sending a valid username and password. This example shows how to connect to the POP3 service from a shell prompt on the mail server: $ telnet localhost 110 Trying 127.0.0.1… Connected to localhost.localdomain. Escape character is ^] . +OK Hello there. USER username +OK Password required. PASS password The response you receive from the server should be similar to one of the following: . +OK logged in This is a normal response and should mean that there are no problems with the service. . -ERR Maildir: No such file or directory This error indicates that the user s account does not have a Maildir directory. Use the maildirmake command to create it, as shown in the Installing and Configuring Exim section. . -ERR Maildir: Permission denied This error indicates that the user s Maildir directory cannot be read or belongs to the wrong user. To remedy this, run this command as root: # chown -R username:groupname ~username/Maildir Be sure to replace username and groupname with the login name and primary group of the user. In a stock Debian system, the primary group name will be the same as the username. . -ERR Login failed If you re certain that you are using the correct username and password, it could be that the Courier authdaemon service is not running. Try to start (or restart) it using this command: # invoke-rc.d courier-authdaemon restart
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