POP3 authentication problem. Please Help.

[Sergey Merkuriev]

Hello All,

Have trouble with POP3 it not work properly. I have two users: user1 and
user2. The user1 have imap account and can login into IMAP server but can't
login into POP3 server and user2 cant login into POP3 server. The files
user1 and user2 exists in the directory /var/spool/email. There is log
strange records from pop3d.


Have IMAP and POP3 Server.

/usr/local/sbin/saslauthd -a shadow

imap.conf

configdirectory: /var/imap
partition-default: /var/spool/imap
admins: cyrus root
srvtab: /var/imap/srvtab
sievedir: /var/sieve
allowanonymouslogin: no
sasl_pwcheck_method: saslauthd
allowplaintext: yes

cyrus.conf
...
imap          cmd="imapd" listen="imap" prefork=0
pop3          cmd="pop3d" listen="pop3" prefork=0

auth.log:
....
Oct  1 22:38:16 abtweb pop3d[29440]: could not find auxprop plugin, was
searching for '[all]'
Oct  1 22:38:16 abtweb pop3d[29440]: could not find password

./pop3test -u user2 localhost

S: +OK abtweb Cyrus POP3 v2.1.9 server ready <2878525666.1033498506 at abtweb>
C: CAPA
S: +OK List of capabilities follows
S: EXPIRE NEVER
S: LOGIN-DELAY 0
S: TOP
S: UIDL
S: PIPELINING
S: RESP-CODES
S: AUTH-RESP-CODE
S: USER
S: IMPLEMENTATION Cyrus POP3 server v2.1.9
S: .
Please enter your password:
C: APOP root 8cec702222679eae661ac964b834e1d8
S: -ERR [AUTH] authenticating: another step is needed in authentication
Authentication failed. generic failure
Security strength factor: 0

~ Sergey Merkuriev