[Dovecot] deliver fails - passdb doesn't support lookups?

[Andrew Roberts]

On Wed, 12 Mar 2008, Kyle Wheeler wrote:

> I'm trying to get `deliver` (the LDA) to function properly. I can get it to 
> work without doing a user lookup, but for my own sense of sanity, I want to 
> know what I'm doing wrong getting user lookups working. (I'm using dovecot 
> 1.0.10).
>
> Here's what I have in the "auth default" section:
>             args = uid=3728 gid=3728 home=/domains/%Ld/%Ln

> passdb? I thought it was the userdb that was important! What's going on here?

With a static userdb, dovecot still wants to verify that the user exists 
with a passdb lookup.  If your MTA is configured to verify that the user 
exists before passing mails to the LDA, you safely tell userdb to disable 
this check by  addding "allow_all_users=yes" to your passdb args.