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everybody. I've been looking for the mistake in a few days now..

When i want to connect my Webmail with my E-Mail Server via Imap/Smtp, i got this error: "Authentification failed". When you need more Informations, please ask. Can you guys find my config issue?

Kind regards.

Error message:

Nov 19 19:00:43 mail dovecot: imap-login: Aborted login (no auth attempts in 0 secs): user=<>, rip=145.eineip, lip=188nocheineip, session=<mSW4Swh71NCR/idK>

Nov 19 19:01:03 mail dovecot: imap-login: Disconnected (auth failed, 3 attempts in 14 secs): user=<test>, method=PLAIN, rip=145.eineip, lip=188.eineip, session=<omsPTAh71tCR/idK>

Nov 19 19:01:29 mail dovecot: imap-login: Disconnected (auth failed, 3 attempts in 26 secs): user=<test@domain.eu>, method=PLAIN, rip=145.weitereip, lip=188.nochip, session=<wq7fTAh719CR/idK>

Dovecot config:

###Dovecot service

##################

service imap-login {

 inet_listener imap {

 port = 143

}

inet_listener imaps {

 port = 993

 ssl = yes

 }

}



# Change this to where your mail root is, this needs to match whatever structure postfix expects....

# See also: https://wiki.dovecot.org/MailLocation - %d domain, %u full username, %n user part (%u with no domain)

mail_location = maildir:/var/mail/vmail/%u/



namespace inbox {

inbox = yes

location = 

mailbox Drafts {

special_use = Drafts

}

mailbox Junk {

special_use = Junk

}

mailbox Sent {

special_use = Sent

}

mailbox "Sent Messages" {

special_use = Sent

}

mailbox Trash {

special_use = Trash

}

prefix = 

}



protocols = "imap pop3"

# change to 'no' if you don't have ssl cert/keys, and comment out ssl_cert/ssl_key

ssl = no

#ssl_cert = </etc/letsencrypt/live/mail.domain.eu/cert.pem

#ssl_key = </etc/letsencrypt/live/mail.domain.eu/privkey.pem



# login is for outlook express smtpd auth

auth_mechanisms = plain login



# If you're having trouble, try uncommenting these :

#auth_debug = yes

#auth_debug_passwords = yes



userdb { 

driver = sql

args = /etc/dovecot/dovecot-sql.conf 

}



passdb { 

driver = sql

args = /etc/dovecot/dovecot-sql.conf 

}



# Uncomment this if you want Postfix to be able to do smtpd auth through dovecot

# At a minimum Postfix probably needs : smtpd_sasl_type = dovecot 

# And additionally: smtpd_sasl_path = private/auth

service auth {

unix_listener /var/spool/postfix/private/auth {

    mode = 0660

    user = postfix

    group = postfix

}

}



# Needs to match Postfix virtual_uid_maps

first_valid_uid = 1001 



# allow plaintext auth (change to 'yes' to block plaintext passwords)

disable_plaintext_auth = no

Postfix config:

# See /usr/share/postfix/main.cf.dist for a commented, more complete version





# Debian specific:  Specifying a file name will cause the first

# line of that file to be used as the name.  The Debian default

# is /etc/mailname.

#myorigin = /etc/mailname



smtpd_banner = $domain ESMTP $mail_name (Ubuntu)

biff = no



# appending .domain is the MUA's job.

append_dot_mydomain = no



# Uncomment the next line to generate "delayed mail" warnings

#delay_warning_time = 4h



readme_directory = no



# See http://www.postfix.org/COMPATIBILITY_README.html -- default to 2 on

# fresh installs.

compatibility_level = 2



# TLS parameters

#smtpd_tls_cert_file=/etc/ssl/certs/ssl-cert-snakeoil.pem

#smtpd_tls_key_file=/etc/ssl/private/ssl-cert-snakeoil.key

smtpd_use_tls=no

#smtpd_tls_session_cache_database = btree:${data_directory}/smtpd_scache

#smtp_tls_session_cache_database = btree:${data_directory}/smtp_scache



# See /usr/share/doc/postfix/TLS_README.gz in the postfix-doc package for

# information on enabling SSL in the smtp client.



smtpd_relay_restrictions = permit_mynetworks permit_sasl_authenticated defer_unauth_destination

myhostname = mail

alias_maps = hash:/etc/aliases

alias_database = hash:/etc/aliases

myorigin = /etc/mailname

mydestination = mail.domain.eu, localhost.domain.eu, localhost

relayhost = 

mynetworks = 127.0.0.0/8 [::ffff:127.0.0.0]/104 [::1]/128 192.168.0.0/24

mailbox_size_limit = 0

recipient_delimiter = +

inet_interfaces = all

inet_protocols = all



#######

virtual_mailbox_domains = proxy:mysql:/etc/postfix/sql/mysql_virtual_domains_maps.cf

virtual_alias_maps =

proxy:mysql:/etc/postfix/sql/mysql_virtual_alias_maps.cf,

proxy:mysql:/etc/postfix/sql/mysql_virtual_alias_domain_maps.cf,

proxy:mysql:/etc/postfix/sql/mysql_virtual_alias_domain_catchall_maps.cf

virtual_mailbox_maps =

proxy:mysql:/etc/postfix/sql/mysql_virtual_mailbox_maps.cf,

proxy:mysql:/etc/postfix/sql/mysql_virtual_alias_domain_mailbox_maps.cf

# if you let postfix store your mails directly (without using maildrop, dovecot deliver etc.)

#virtual_mailbox_base = /var/mail/vmail

# Additional for quota support

virtual_create_maildirsize = yes

virtual_mailbox_extended = yes

#virtual_mailbox_limit_maps = proxy:mysql:/etc/postfix /sql/mysql_virtual_mailbox_limit_maps.cf

virtual_mailbox_limit_override = yes

virtual_maildir_limit_message = Sorry, the user's maildir has overdrawn his diskspace quota, please try again later.

virtual_overquota_bounce = yes

Dovecot SQL

connect = host=localhost dbname=name user=name password=psw

# Use either 

driver = mysql

# Or 

# driver = pgsql



# Default password scheme - change to match your Postfixadmin setting.

# depends on your $CONF['encrypt'] setting:

# md5crypt  -> MD5-CRYPT

# md5       -> PLAIN-MD5

# cleartext -> PLAIN

default_pass_scheme = MD5-CRYPT



# Query to retrieve password. user can be used to retrieve username in other

# formats also.



password_query = SELECT username AS user,password FROM mailbox WHERE username = '%u' AND active='1'



# Query to retrieve user information, note uid matches dovecot.conf AND         Postfix virtual_uid_maps parameter.

user_query = SELECT maildir, 1001 AS uid, 1001 AS gid FROM mailbox WHERE username = '%u' AND active='1'





# MYSQL :

user_query = SELECT CONCAT('/var/mail/vmail/', maildir) AS home, 1001 AS uid, 1001 AS gid, CONCAT('*:bytes=', quota) AS quota_rule FROM mailbox WHERE         username = '%u' AND active='1'

# PostgreSQL : (no Quota though) :

# user_query = SELECT '/var/vmail/mail/' || maildir AS home, 1001 as uid, 1001 as gid FROM mailbox WHERE username = '%u' AND active = '1'

A few things - your ability to log in to webmail has nothing to do with Postfix or SMTP (that may be relevant for actually sending emails, nothing else)

You appear to assume webmail uses IMAP authentication (which is a reasonable but not guaranteed assumption)
You should get IMAP working and check it with a regular mail client like thunderbird or outlook. (Or use telnet and IMAP commands, but that's quite advanced) to check IMAP works.

Your current dovecot configuration appears to only use an SQL database to authenticate users You either need to change this behaviour or add the admin to the SQL database. (You can see this behaviour because the driver to check user and password in the config is SQL). You have not provided the SQL config file/etc/dovecot/dovecot-sql.conf but that file should tell you what database and fields need to be used.

Alternatively change the driver to use the system database as per https://wiki.dovecot.org/PasswordDatabase/PAM - note that this could decrease your systems security. You will also need to change your config to allow plaintext author to make this work.