[BlueOnyx:20325] Re: Authentication failed

[Michael Stauber]

Hi Lewis,

> Did something change?
> 
> When trying to get email via POP I'm getting;
> 
> "Sending of password did not succeed. Mail server xxxx.xxx responded:
> Authentication failed."

Nope, there were no updates which could have caused this. Perhaps
dovecot-auth has hung up after a brute force attack?

Try to stop dovecot. Then check the process list and kill off anything
related to dovecot that' still running. Then restart the service and see
if it works. It usually does.

-- 
With best regards

Michael Stauber