So I'm setting up a mailserver here - Courier & Postfix on Debian 7.8, authenticating against MySQL. Got it mostly set up - I can send mail, and the address is also receiving mail properly, with postfix putting it in the correct Maildir, everything is authenticating with sasl/pam correctly, etc.
However, I couldn't actually connect to IMAP through Thunderbird (it says that it can't validate the login details), and the logs weren't showing anything other than the actual connection attempt - there were no errors listed whatsoever (courier debug logging was enabled for this). The mailog showed only:
Jan 14 17:17:21 server imapd: Connection, ip=[::ffff:x.x.x.x]
So I went to testing it manually (telnet domain.tld 143) remotely, I get the following output:
* OK [CAPABILITY IMAP4rev1 UIDPLUS CHILDREN NAMESPACE THREAD=ORDEREDSUBJECT THREAD=REFERENCES SORT QUOTA IDLE ACL ACL2=UNION STARTTLS XMAGICTRASH] Courier-IMAP ready. Copyright 1998-2011 Double Precision, Inc. See COPYING for distribution information.
1 LOGIN test@test.tld testpass
NO Error in IMAP command received by server.
The thing is though, when I test it locally on the server itself, it works fine!
me@server:/# telnet localhost 143
Trying 127.0.0.1...
Connected to localhost.
Escape character is '^]'.
* OK [CAPABILITY IMAP4rev1 UIDPLUS CHILDREN NAMESPACE THREAD=ORDEREDSUBJECT THREAD=REFERENCES SORT QUOTA IDLE ACL ACL2=UNION STARTTLS XMAGICTRASH] Courier-IMAP ready. Copyright 1998-2011 Double Precision, Inc. See COPYING for distribution information.
1 LOGIN test@test.tld testpass
1 OK LOGIN Ok.
Searching for the NO Error in IMAP only pointed to cases where the command hadn't been prefixed by a number, which I've already done here - besides, it works properly on localhost. Also, searching for cases where it worked locally but not remotely only led to issues in connectivity, which isn't the case here either. I'm kinda stumped!
