exim started refusing passwords?

[Xenon101]

Just yesterday (nothing has changed) exim has started refusing pop3 logins (but i can get into port 2095, not tried accessing mail there). It's happening in outlook, ive tried changing my pop3 password but still cant get into it.

I'm server admin so can do anything to it, have fried /scripts/eximup --force with no luck any ideas?

Edit: webmail lets me login, what the hell is going on here? is it something with cppop?

 

[DigitalSurgeon]

Are you on a VPS (Virtual Private server)?

 

[rpmws]

Just yesterday (nothing has changed) exim has started refusing pop3 logins (but i can get into port 2095, not tried accessing mail there). It's happening in outlook, ive tried changing my pop3 password but still cant get into it.

I'm server admin so can do anything to it, have fried /scripts/eximup --force with no luck any ideas?

Edit: webmail lets me login, what the hell is going on here? is it something with cppop?

exim has nothing to do with pop logins. That is handled by the pop server. You have one of 2 choices now. For many years cppop (a cpanel based pop server) did all the pop sessions on the box. In the last few days a conversion to maildir from mbox has been made available in a effort to get away from a security flaw in the imap server we have been running. This conversion basically converts all your users mail inbox files to maildir format and removes the cppop pop deamon and installs courier which handles pop and imap I believe ..all in one now. If someone using WHM clicked the conversion script link in WHM at the top page it is possible that the conversion could run for hours and hours if the mail file sizes were large on the box. It's also possible that something went wrong in the install for the new courier. If you are 100% sure that the conversion has not been started then you have other reasons for cppop to reject passwords. An inbox.lock file (per account) would cause this as well. If every email box is getting this problem then it's most likely your maildir conversion is either still running or got screwed up somehow. pop sessions don't rely on exim so I think you can rule that out for now.

this thread might help also.
http://forums.cpanel.net/showthread.php?t=44926

 

[chirpy]

You should also check your /var/log/maillog file when you attempt to POP the account to see what errors/messages appear.

 

[Xenon101]

I am on a vps, yes.

I'm not sure that theres anything wrong in the maillog?

Oct  9 13:51:59 vps imapd[2041]: Authenticated user=iain.shortreed domain=xn3.net host=localhost [127.0.0.1]
Oct  9 13:51:59 vps imapd[2041]: Logout user=iain.shortreed domain=xn3.net host=localhost [127.0.0.1]
Oct  9 13:52:02 vps imapd[2068]: Authenticated user=iain.shortreed domain=xn3.net host=localhost [127.0.0.1]
Oct  9 13:52:03 vps imapd[2068]: Logout user=iain.shortreed domain=xn3.net host=localhost [127.0.0.1]
Oct  9 13:52:09 vps imapd[2248]: Authenticated user=iain.shortreed domain=xn3.net host=localhost [127.0.0.1]
Oct  9 13:52:10 vps imapd[2248]: Logout user=iain.shortreed domain=xn3.net host=localhost [127.0.0.1]
Oct  9 13:53:37 vps imapd[2287]: Authenticated user=iain.shortreed domain=xn3.net host=localhost [127.0.0.1]
Oct  9 13:53:38 vps imapd[2287]: Logout user=iain.shortreed domain=xn3.net host=localhost [127.0.0.1]

Edit: unless a reseller could have clicked the update script it's not possible that's whats happened.

 

[Xenon101]

I've just done a clean install and i'm still having the same problem!!! How the heck is that possible? I've verified it isn't just me by getting other users of the xn3.net domain to try and login with no luck. Has pop3 been set to only allow localhost logins or something? I'm totally stumped!

Would converting to maildir fix this problem? Because at present i could drop all accounts and convert without a problem if it would be better than having to do it later.

Edit: I converted to maildir, still having the same problem. Nothing is being added to /var/log/maillog however? Very confused as to why it's doing this

 

[dreamwiz]

Edit: I converted to maildir, still having the same problem. Nothing is being added to /var/log/maillog however? Very confused as to why it's doing this

Same problem here

 

[dalem]

try
service xinetd stop
service cpanel restart
service xinetd start

see http://forums.cpanel.net/showthread.php?t=45132

 

[dreamwiz]

try
service xinetd stop
service cpanel restart
service xinetd start

see http://forums.cpanel.net/showthread.php?t=45132

Just restarting cpanel seems to have fixed many issues. Thank you!