I'm trying to login to Roundcube only the program won't let me.
I can login to the said account from the shell and mail is setup and working correctly on my server for user 'admin'. It's RC that is the problem. If I check my logs:
/usr/local/www/roundcube/logs/errors
they show:
[21-Sep-2013 17:19:02 +0100]: IMAP Error: Login failed for admin from ip.ip.ip.ip. Could not connect to ip.ip.ip.ip:143:
Connection refused in /usr/local/www/roundcube/program/lib/Roundcube/rcube_imap.php on line 184
(POST /roundcube/?_task=login&_action=login)
which doesn't give me many clues really, just leads me to:
public function connect($host, $user, $pass, $port=143, $use_ssl=null) {}
from
rcube_imap.php
Stuff I've tried, editing:
/usr/local/www/roundcube/config/main.inc.php
with:
// IMAP AUTH type (DIGEST-MD5, CRAM-MD5, LOGIN, PLAIN or null to use
// best server supported one)
//$rcmail_config['imap_auth_type'] = LOGIN;
$rcmail_config['imap_auth_type'] = null;
// Log IMAP conversation to <log_dir>/imap or to syslog
$rcmail_config['imap_debug'] = /var/log/imap;
With a failed login attempt
/var/log/imap
doesn't even get written to, leaving me no clues. I'm using dovecot and Sendmail on a FreeBSD box with full root access. It's not an incorrect username password combination for sure.
Several Googles on the string 'Roundcube: Connection to storage server failed' are fruitless.
EDIT:
I needed an entry in
/etc/rc.conf
dovecot_enable="YES"
Schoolboy error.
I had the same problem with a letsencrypt certificate and resolve it by disabling peer authentication:
$config['imap_conn_options'] = array(
'ssl' => array('verify_peer' => true, 'verfify_peer_name' => false),
'tls' => array('verify_peer' => true, 'verfify_peer_name' => false),
);
Afterwards you can set the connection string like this (starttls):
$config['default_host'] = 'tls://your-host.tld';
$config['default_port'] = '143';
$config['smtp_server'] = 'tls://your-host.tld';
$config['smtp_port'] = '25';
Or like this (ssl approach):
$config['default_host'] = 'ssl://your-host.tld';
$config['default_port'] = '993';
$config['smtp_server'] = 'ssl://your-host.tld';
$config['smtp_port'] = '587';
Make sure you use the fully qualified hostname of the certificate in the connection string (like your-host.tld) and not an internal hostname (like localhost).
Hope that helps someone else.
Change the maildir to whatever your system uses.
Change Dovecot mail_location setting to
mail_location = maildir:~/Mail
Change Postfix home_mailbox setting to
home_mailbox = Mail/
Restart services and away you go
Taken from this fedoraforum post
If you run fail2ban
, then dovecot
might get banned following failed Roundcube login attempts. This has happened to me twice already...
First, check if this is indeed the case:
sudo fail2ban-client status dovecot
If you get an output similar to this:
Status for the jail: dovecot
|- Filter
| |- Currently failed: 1
| |- Total failed: 8
| `- File list: /var/log/mail.log
`- Actions
|- Currently banned: 1
|- Total banned: 2
`- Banned IP list: X.X.X.X
i.e. the Currently banned
number is higher than 0, then fail2ban
was a bit overeager and you have to "unban" dovecot
.
Run the fail2ban
client in interactive mode:
sudo fail2ban-client -i
and at the fail2ban>
prompt enter the following:
set dovecot unbanip X.X.X.X
where X.X.X.X
is the IP address of your Dovecot server.
Exit from the interactive client and run sudo fail2ban-client status dovecot
again. The Currently banned:
field now should have a value of 0. What's more important, RoundCube should work again :-)
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