[Dovecot] "logins with UID ... are not permitted"

[Udo Rader]

On Tue, 2005-08-02 at 12:45 +0200, Udo Rader wrote:
> hi,
> 
> I've just upgraded our dovecot installation to the most recent debian
> package (0.99.20050712) and now I'm running into some weird problems.
> Virtual (LDAP based) users cannot login anymore, the logfile shows this:
> 
> -------CUT-------
> dovecot: Aug 02 12:34:25 Error: Logins with UID 200 (user some.user) not
> permitted (see first_valid_uid in config file)
> -------CUT-------
> 
> yet /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf has this for the mentioned parameter:
> 
> first_valid_uid = 1
> first_valid_gid = 1
> 
> "regular" users can login however ...

another thing: the login only fails when using IMAP, POP3 works without
problems ...

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