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

[Timo Sirainen]

On Sun, 2008-10-05 at 13:27 -0300, Dâniel Fraga wrote:
> 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?

You probably also moved userdb static before userdb passwd, causing
Dovecot to always use userdb static for everyone. So the order you want
is:

1. passdb passwd-file
2. passdb pam
3. userdb passwd
4. userdb static

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