[Dovecot] How to bypass checking of system users by virtual users?

[Dâniel Fraga]

On Sun, 05 Oct 2008 18:59:10 +0300
Timo Sirainen <tss at iki.fi> wrote:

> If you don't set auth_debug=yes (and auth_verbose=yes? I'm not sure),
> you won't see any error messages when real users log in.

	Would you believe that when I switch the order of the
real/virtual users authentication configuration, the real users
do not receive email anymore? I mean, the mail is in the mailbox, but
dovecot returns 0 new messages. So I have to keep the real users
checking first, before virtual users, otherwise it won't work for real
users.

	Strange, isn't?

########### real

   userdb passwd {
   }

   passdb pam {
   }

############ virtual

   userdb static {
	   args = uid=17 gid=17 home=/var/spool/virtual/%d/.home/%n
           mail=mbox:/var/spool/virtual/%d/home/%n:INBOX=/var/spool/virtual/%d/%n
   }

  passdb passwd-file {
  	   args = username_format=%n /etc/virtual/%d/passwd  
   }

	***

	The above works, but the opposite, no.


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