[Dovecot] SMTP Auth Issue for non /etc/passwd accounts
Timo Sirainen
tss at iki.fi
Fri Jul 17 19:55:59 EEST 2009
On Fri, 2009-07-17 at 12:47 -0400, markb at essic.umd.edu wrote:
> auth default:
> mechanisms: plain login
> verbose: yes
> debug: yes
> debug_passwords: yes
> passdb:
> driver: passwd-file
> args: /etc/dovecot/passwd
> userdb:
> driver: passwd-file
> args: /etc/dovecot/users
OK, so you haven't configured anything except passwd-file and you
haven't configured any auth sockets either.
> > > Folks - With Dovecot 1.0.7, we're seemingly unable to
> > > authenticate users for out-going SMTP access who are
> > > not residing directly within the main system passwd/shadow
> > > files.
Which means you haven't configured your MTA to authenticate using
Dovecot!
You didn't mention what MTA you're using.. If you're using Postfix or
Exim, see http://wiki.dovecot.org/HowTo/PostfixAndDovecotSASL or
http://wiki.dovecot.org/HowTo/EximAndDovecotSASL
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