[Dovecot] hanging imap... and users getting other users' emails!

[Josh Burley]

Good question, eh? I thought the same when I went back and read the 
comments about the UID.

But, it *was* working. For a few weeks (we did the upgrade about three 
weeks ago). Only about 30 users in /etc/passwd, but over 300 in LDAP.

We have the default_main_env set, and no mail field in our LDAP schema.


Timo Sirainen wrote:
> On Thu, 2005-03-03 at 09:25 -0800, Josh Burley wrote:
> 
>>I've just switched to ldap.
>>
>>But, when this problem was occurring (don't know if it is still), it was 
>>set up with userdb = passwd, and passwd = pam. But, our passwd only has 
>>none of our users in it (I don't really understand the use of this in 
>>the PAM context).
> 
> 
> Um. How was it working at all then, if your users weren't in passwd?
> Because that's where Dovecot looked their UID, GID and home directory.
> PAM only checks that user's password is correct.
> 
> 
>>What mail-settings do you mean?
> 
> 
> With passwd there's no such thing. With LDAP it's possible to return a
> "mail" field which overrides default_mail_env.
> 
> 
>>login_preocess_per_connection is commented out. What is the default? 
>>I'll change this to "yes" now.
> 
> 
> Default is shown in the commented line, so it's yes.
>