[Dovecot] Plain password not authenticating

Anne Wilson cannewilson at tiscali.co.uk
Sun Jan 15 00:21:43 EET 2006


On Saturday 14 Jan 2006 19:21, Anne Wilson wrote:
> On Saturday 14 Jan 2006 19:11, Timo Sirainen wrote:
> > On Sat, 2006-01-14 at 15:32 +0000, Anne Wilson wrote:
> > >   userdb passwd-file{
> >
> > You're missing a space in here before '{'.
>
> Well spotted, thanks :-)  Last one - last line, so it has to be -
> #User to use for the process
> user = root
>
> Unknown setting: user
>
Oops - forget the last message.  The 'Base directory' line needed 
uncommenting.

Now dovecot starts and I can telnet localhost 143, but I'm still getting 
NO authentication.  Should I post my config file now?

Anne


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