BBS:      TELESC.NET.BR
Assunto:  Re: Dovecot for testing - can someone please give advice?
De:       Markus Robert Kessler
Data:     Sun, 18 Jan 2026 21:30:01 +1100
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On Sat, 17 Jan 2026 20:43:12 -0000 (UTC) Lawrence D?Oliveiro wrote:

> On Sat, 17 Jan 2026 13:51:22 -0000 (UTC), Markus Robert Kessler wrote:
> 
>> When I try to log into Dovecot, it asks for password (based on
>> /etc/shadow as it looks like), but then Dovecot asks for some imap
>> password:
>>
>> [502 root@rpi-inst ~]# cyradm -u cyrus localhost Password:
>> IMAP Password:
>>               Login failed: authentication failure at
>>               /usr/lib/arm-linux-gnueabihf/perl5/5.32/Cyrus/IMAP/
Admin.pm
>>               line 134.
>> cyradm: cannot authenticate to server as cyrus
> 
> Seems to be saying it?s trying to authenticate as user ?cyrus?. Is this
> valid?

Yes, I typed this to connect to localmachine, wanting to authenticate as 
user 'cyrus' with password I've set

> Another thing to check is, is it trying to connect via the imap port
> (143) or imaps (993)?

I checked this with wireshark on local-loopback. Requests are against port 
143/tcp on localhost. In some packets I see auth attempts like 
'AUTHENTICATE DIGEST-MD5'

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