Need help setting up dovecot for POP3

[buzznick]

I'm trying to set up dovecot to serve POP3 mail on my Fedora Core 3 box. Everything looks fine except when I try to use my mail client on an external box I get the following error (where '<myserver>' is my server name):

The POP server “<myserver>” rejected the password for user “nick@<myserver>”
Please re-enter your password, or cancel.

I have left the dovecot.conf file with all the default settings.

The settings in my mail program are:

Port: 110
Authentication: password


The user name and password entered are definitely correct and are the same as I use to log in to the FC3 server itself.

In /var/log/mailog I get this:

Apr 3 12:39:46 <localhost> dovecot-auth: PAM: pam_authenticate(nick@<myserver>) failed: Authentication failure
Apr 3 12:39:46 <localhost> pop3-login: Aborted login [<serverIPaddr>]


Does anyone have any idea what's going on? I've been on dovecot's web site but can't find anything useful.

Thanks in advance...
Nick

 

[thedaver]

Never, ever heard of dovecot, sorry.

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