Re: Freebsd Dovecot24 port

On Sat, Aug 22, 2026 at 11:56 AM The Doctor via dovecot <[email protected]>
wrote:

> Something is not correct.
>
> Dovecot 2.3 ports does work, but not the 2.4 ports
>
>
> Here are errors I am seeing
>
> Aug 21 15:01:01 auth: Debug: conn unix:login (uid=30) [9]: client in:
> AUTH
> 1       PLAIN   protocol=imap   final-resp-ok   secured=tls
>  session=f5oT75RZ
> zsYKDgAE        lip=204.209.81.1        rip=10.14.0.4   lport=993
>  rport=50
> 894     ssl_ja3_hash=b8f77ef1c9705bb58db7ce238ba640d7   local_name=
> pop3.nk.ca
> resp=AGRhdmUAIS0xLSFAIyQlXiYqKCkxMjM0NTY3ODkw (previous base64 data may
> contain
> sensitive data)
> Aug 21 15:01:01 auth(?,10.14.0.4,sasl:plain)<f5oT75RZzsYKDgAE>: Debug:
> sasl(plai
> n): Request create
> Aug 21 15:01:01 auth(?,10.14.0.4,sasl:plain)<f5oT75RZzsYKDgAE>: Debug:
> penalty(1
> 0.14.0.4): Delaying response for 0 seconds
> Aug 21 15:01:01 auth(?,10.14.0.4,sasl:plain)<f5oT75RZzsYKDgAE>: Debug:
> sasl(plai
> n): Started interaction with initial response (size=30)
> Aug 21 15:01:01 auth(dave,10.14.0.4,sasl:plain)<f5oT75RZzsYKDgAE>: Debug:
> sasl(p
> lain): Set authid 'dave'
> Aug 21 15:01:01 auth(dave,10.14.0.4,sasl:plain)<f5oT75RZzsYKDgAE>: Debug:
> sasl(plain): Performing plain passdb verification
> Aug 21 15:01:01 auth(dave,10.14.0.4,sasl:plain)<f5oT75RZzsYKDgAE>: Debug:
> passwd-file: Performing passdb lookup
> Aug 21 15:01:01 auth(dave,10.14.0.4,sasl:plain)<f5oT75RZzsYKDgAE>: Info:
> passwd-file: missing passwd file: scheme=CRYPT /etc/master.passwd
>
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

> Aug 21 15:01:01 auth(dave,10.14.0.4,sasl:plain)<f5oT75RZzsYKDgAE>: Debug:
> passwd-file: Finished passdb lookup
> Aug 21 15:01:01 auth(dave,10.14.0.4,sasl:plain)<f5oT75RZzsYKDgAE>: Debug:
> sasl(p
> lain): Finished plain passdb verification (status=user-unknown)
> Aug 21 15:01:01 auth(dave,10.14.0.4,sasl:plain)<f5oT75RZzsYKDgAE>: Debug:
> sasl(plain): Interaction failed
> Aug 21 15:01:01 auth(dave,10.14.0.4,sasl:plain)<f5oT75RZzsYKDgAE>: Debug:
> Auth request finished
> Aug 21 15:01:01 auth(dave,10.14.0.4,sasl:plain)<f5oT75RZzsYKDgAE>: Debug:
> delaying auth failure
> Aug 21 15:01:03 auth: Debug: conn unix:login (uid=30) [9]: client passdb
> out: FAIL      1       user=dave
> Aug 21 15:01:03 auth(dave,10.14.0.4)<f5oT75RZzsYKDgAE>: Debug:
> sasl(plain): Request destroy
> Aug 21 15:01:03 imap-login: Info: Login aborted: Connection closed (auth
> failed, 1 attempts in 2 secs) (auth_failed): user=<dave>, method=PLAIN,
> rip=10.14.0.4, lip=204.209.81.1, TLS
> Aug 21 15:01:03 auth: Debug: conn unix:login (uid=30) [9]: Disconnected:
> EOF (fd=26)
> Aug 21 15:01:08 master: Info: Dovecot v2.4.4 (8b687aa65c) starting up for
> imap, pop3, lmtp
>
>
> I switch back to dovecot 2.3 .X no problem.
>

You should have accompanied your post with the output of 'doveconf -n'
(while using doveconf from 2.4).
Dovecot 2.4 will not work with the config from 2.3. I am sure you already
know that.
In the above debug, I see that your passwd file was not found. Maybe that's
the problem - or something else.

I run Dovecot 2.4 on FreeBSD 15 and it works, but it's just for testing,
and I use MariaDB backend.

-- 
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