[Dovecot] Plain password not authenticating

[Anne Wilson]

On Sunday 15 Jan 2006 13:37, Timo Sirainen wrote:
> > OK - all the info I can gather:
> > dovecot: Jan 15 11:47:21 Info: auth(default):
> > passwd-file(anne,127.0.0.1):
> > unknown user
>
> This says that it didn't see anne in the passwd-file.
>
> > /etc/imap.passwd
> > anne:{plain}******:1000:1000::/home/anne
>
> But it's correctly in here. I can't think of anything else than that
> it's reading wrong file somehow or that the imap.passwd file contains
> something else besides what you just pasted. Did you check with for
> example vi that there are no strange control characters at the
> beginning of the line?
>
I didn't find anything.

I've not gone away, but I've made a serious Oops with my OS.  I'll be 
back when everything's up and running again.

Anne