[BlueOnyx:20326] Re: Authentication failed

[Lewis Gardner]

Sorry for not updating this post.

I tried unclicking Enable SMTP Server, Enable SMTP Auth and Enable POP 
Server (for good measure) then saved in the GUI. Waited a few minutes 
and reclicked those three and saved. No joy.

About two hours later email resumed without further action on my part.

Did making those changes in the GUI restart dovecot?

Thanks!


Michael Stauber wrote:
> 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.
>