[Dovecot] Plain password not authenticating

[Timo Sirainen]

On Thu, 2006-01-12 at 21:47 +0000, Anne Wilson wrote:
> I'm trying to set up a temporary mailserver using Debian Sarge and 
> Dovecot 1.0 with maildir format.  My only previous experience has been 
> on a simple imap server.
> 
> I have read the wiki documentation and searched the archives, but can't 
> tie down my problem.  The log tells me
> 
> Info: passwd-file(anne) : unknown user.
> 
> I have set 
> auth_userdb = passwd-file /etc/imap.passwd
> auth_passdb = passwd-file /etc/imap.passwd
> 
> and created the /etc/imap.passwd file as
> anne:{plain}mypassword:1000:1000::/home/anne

That all looks correct. It doesn't give any other error message? And you
don't have some other auth_passdbs/auth_userdbs defined in the same
config file elsewhere which might mess things up?

Maybe just try 1.0alpha5 instead, it could give you better error
messages.

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