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

[Kyle Wheeler]

On Wednesday, March 12 at 11:40 AM, quoth 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.

Ahhh! That makes sense, thank you! Okay, so allow_all_users=yes would 
make it work... but what if I do want it to check users. What might I 
have wrong in my ldap settings that would prevent it from looking up 
users? And what kind of a performance penalty do I pay for making that 
lookup?

~Kyle
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                                                    -- Vincent Van Gogh
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