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Invalid username or Password
- Login Container
docker exec -it <mycontainer> bash
- Check log files
/var/log/mail
could not find any mention of incorrect logins here
neither in the dovecot logs
- Make sure you set your hostname to 'mail' or whatever you specified in your docker-compose.yml file or else your FQDN will be wrong
Installation Errors
- During setup, if you get errors trying to edit files inside of the container, you likely need to install vi:
sudo su
docker exec -it <mycontainer> apt-get install -y vim
Testing Connection
I spent HOURS trying to debug "Connection Refused" and "Connection closed by foreign host" errors when trying to use telnet to troubleshoot my connection. I was also trying to connect from my email client (macOS mail) around the same time. Telnet had also worked earlier, so I was extremely confused as to why it suddenly stopped working. I stumbled upon fail2ban.log in my container. In short, when trying to get my macOS client working, I exceeded the number of failed login attempts and fail2ban put dovecot and postfix in jail! I got around it by whitelisting my ipaddresses (my ec2 instance and my local computer)
sudo su
docker exec -ti mail bash
cd /var/log
cat fail2ban.log | grep dovecot
# Whitelist ip addresses:
fail2ban-client set dovecot addignoreip <server ip> # ec2 cloud server
fail2ban-client set postfix addignoreip <server ip>
fail2ban-client set dovecot addignoreip <client ip> # my desktop
fail2ban-client set postfix addignoreip <client ip>
# this will delete the jails entirely - nuclear option
fail2ban-client stop dovecot
fail2ban-client stop postfix