Mail server (dovecot) stop authenticate (server.app 3.0.3, OsX 10.9.2)
Hi,
I have this problem: on a Mac mini with Maverick 10.9.2 and Server.app 3.0.3 with Open Directory (with about 75 Users and mail), it appears that randomly, dovecot stop to authenticate mail clients without standart method, so all Windows client stop to work because server ask again their passwords.
At this point the only way to restart service for good is to restart completely the machine.
Start/Stop mail service or Open Directory does'nt work.
If we do an hardware reboot of the server, clients start to authenticate again.
We use as authenticate mechanism "Ad hoc" with all check opts. enabled...
This is a very annoying problem: with a large number of users can be really a pain in the *ss.
I try to search the forum and the closest similar problem I've foud it's about osx that use (in ad hoc choice of authentication mechanism) CRAM-MD5 as default option and this is not supported by windows oulook-like clients.
The only difference in my case is that this seems NOT really true because Mail server WORKS for a while (could be one or two working day) and then in a random way that I couldnt understand, it stop until I restart the machine.
It's so weird.
Please, where I can start to look to troubleshoot this problem?
Can someone had a similar experience to share?
Thanks in advance...
Mac mini, OS X Mavericks (10.9.2), Server.app 3.0.3