bad login on standard account

[CLCK]

Hi there,

I recently installed DirectAdmin for the first time. The installation was pretty easy, tho i have a problem now.

When i create an account as an admin (or reseller) DirectAdmin creates a standard e-mail account. When i try to login to that e-mail account (username@domain.nl) it says Bad Login: check your username/password. That's with whatever email client i try to login.

But when i create an email address myself, it's working perfectly. So i only have the problem with the standard e-mail accounts DA is creating after i create a username and hostingaccount..

OS: Fedora Core 6
DA: 1.29.2
Exim: standard version with DA 1.29.2

Thanks for helping me out!

[floyd]

The standard email account that directadmin creates is *not* in the form of username@domain.nl. Its just username.

[CLCK]

Hi,

I'm aware of that. I used DirectAdmin before, but it worked there... i tried it with both ways (with domain, and without) but it just won't work... :(

[floyd]

What does the log tell you?

Also just so you know Exim has nothing to do with pop3.

[CLCK]

yeah, someone told me that it does... but i thought it didn't, cause it's something different than POP3.. it's anti spam orso..

Log just tells me the user/pass is not accepted...

[floyd]

Try modifying the password for that account.

Exim delivers the mail to your mailbox.
Pop3 allows you to pick up your mail.

Exim does not necessarily have anything to do with spam prevention either.

[CLCK]

Already tried that.... :( didn't do anything better

[floyd]

I can't tell you any more without looking at the server myself.

[jlasman]

I've never known DA to automatically work with username@example.com. The only way I can think of to make it work that way is to create a username email account in DA, and then create a forward username -> username@example.com. While I'm not sure, I think that should work.

Jeff

[CLCK]

Hi,

It doesn't work yet.. i try to do everything, searching at google, at DA forums... it's just a problem with the standard email account that is created when a new domain/user is created within DA. When i create an email myself the login is working fine.

Also, my webmail doesn't work. It seems that IMAPD isn't running... how can i check that?

Something with the same problem, but the thing that the Topic starter mentioned, doesn't work... the good line is already in there...

http://www.directadmin.com/forum/showthread.php?t=17695

[floyd]

Log just tells me the user/pass is not accepted

Its not going to say that. It will either say there is no such user or it will say the password is wrong. Why don't give a us a copy and paste of the error lines.

[host-online]

My problem is similar.

Server's host name is: host-online.ru
There is admin's standart account with email: admin@host-online.ru
How can I access to this email? There are another accounts created by DA, they work fine. What should I do with admin's email?

===============================================
telnet host-online.ru 110
Trying 81.200.245.114...
Connected to host-online.ru (81.200.245.114).
Escape character is '^]'.
+OK POP3 Welcome to vm-pop3d 1.1.7f-DA-2
USER admin
+OK
PASS my_password
-ERR Bad login
quit
+OK
Connection closed by foreign host.
===============================================

In /var/log/mainlog:
===============================================
Jun 15 12:27:22 web vm-pop3d[25443]: User 'admin' - failed auth, from ...
Jun 15 12:27:30 web vm-pop3d[25443]: Session ended for no user from ...
===============================================

[floyd]

Search the knowledgebase or this forum for "failed auth from" (no quotes).

http://www.directadmin.com/forum/showthread.php?t=19353&highlight=failed+auth
http://help.directadmin.com/item.php?id=134

[host-online]

Yes, it works! Thanks alot!