[imp] Re: Authentication Problem

[ryan at 602global.com]

Thanks for the reply.  It was an issue with using vpopmail-5.2.1.  Upgraded to
5.2.24 devel package and all seems fine now.  Thanks for the help.

ryan.


Quoting Eric Rostetter <eric.rostetter at physics.utexas.edu>:

> Quoting Ryan Burton <ryan at 602global.com>:
> 
> > C'mon, someone must have seen this!?  Anyone?
> 
> Seen it lots of times.  And it is fairly meaningless.  Check your imap
> logs, instead of the Horde logs, to find out why it is failing.
> 
> > Oct 23 09:46:43 HORDE [notice] [imp] Login success for user at example.com
> > [131.137.210.39] to {localhost:143} [on line 92 of
> > "/home/apache/htdocs/horde/imp/redirect.php"]Oct 23 09:47:44 HORDE
> > [error] [imp] FAILED LOGIN 130.134.210.39 to localhost:143[imap/notls]
> > as user at example.com [on line 281 of
> > "/home/apache/htdocs/horde/imp/lib/IMP.php"]
> 
> It is trying to login as "user at example.com" but I have not idea if that
> is correct.  Should it login as "user at example.com" or just as "user"?
> 
> > I replaced my e-mail with the user example.  I get this after I log in,
> > then when browsing around I get knocked back to the login screen with
> > the second error.  The folling is what's on those lines
> > line 92:  Horde::logMessage($entry, __FILE__, __LINE__, LOG_NOTICE);
> > line 281: Horde::logMessage($entry, __FILE__, __LINE__, LOG_ERR);
> > Has anyone seen this before or know how to resolv this annoying issue?
> 
> Look in your imap logs.
> 
> > > It's not just a simple password remember issue or enterer incorrectly,
> > > because I type it a few times and it works.  Random amount of times I
> 
> Maybe you have a bad key on your keyboard, that works sometimes and not
> others?
> 
> > > Has anyone seen this before or know how to resolv this annoying issue?
> 
> Not without more information from you.
> 
> > >> Ok, I am still having problems authenticating using either IMP,
> > >> Mozilla Mail, Outlook....doesn't matter.  I have increased the
> > >> allowable connections from on IP, and the number of daemons, but
> > >> doesn't help.  Here are some symptoms:
> 
> So are you (or someone) saying this isn't an IMP issue at all, but happens
> will all mail clients?  If so, then you have an imap server problem.
> 
> Do you run your server from inetd?  If so, you could be hitting the rate
> limit and need to raise it.
> 
> > >> - IMP webmail is the same thing.  Sometimes I can login ok, but it
> > >> will log me out at radom times.  Sometimes while clicking on mail,
> > >> options, folders...whatever.  Then I get back to the login
> > >> prompt...try again a few times, and it might let me back in.
> 
> IMP has to login fresh for each operation.  So if the login fails, you will
> naturally be bounced back to the login screen.  This is normal.  The problem
> is not with IMP, but with your imap connection (network, server, etc).
> 
> > >> I really hope someone can help, I can't figure it out.  If it makes a
> > >> difference I am running Slackware 8.1, newest versions of Horde and
> > >> components, courier-0.43.2, php-4.3.3, vpopmail-5.2.1, and mysql
> > >> 3.23.52.
> 
> No idea how vpopmail works, so I can't help.  But if you tell use how
> it is run (inetd, daemon, etc) maybe we can propose possible things to
> check.
> 
> Otherwise, you really need to ask on the vpopmail list, since this is not
> an IMP issue but an imap server issue.
> 
> > >> Thank you!
> > >> ryan.
> 
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> Eric Rostetter
> The Department of Physics
> The University of Texas at Austin
> 
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