[Dovecot] dovecot is working, sort of

[LuKreme]

I have dovecot setup and authenticating away for local users, but when I try to add MySQL users from postfix admin, not only does that fail, but all authentication fails.

This configuration does not work:

 doveconf -n
# 2.2.5: /usr/local/etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf
# OS: FreeBSD 9.1-RELEASE i386  
namespace inbox {
  inbox = yes
  location = 
  mailbox Drafts {
    special_use = \Drafts
  }
  mailbox Junk {
    special_use = \Junk
  }
  mailbox Sent {
    special_use = \Sent
  }
  mailbox "Sent Messages" {
    special_use = \Sent
  }
  mailbox Trash {
    special_use = \Trash
  }
  prefix = 
}
passdb {
  driver = pam
}
passdb {
  args = /etc/dovecot/dovecot-sql.conf.ext
  driver = sql
}
ssl_cert = </etc/ssl/certs/dovecot.pem
ssl_key = </etc/ssl/private/dovecot.pem
userdb {
  driver = passwd
}
userdb {
  args = /etc/dovecot/dovecot-sql.conf.ext
  driver = sql
}

and I get the following errors for *ALL* attempts to connect, not just sql ones:
mail dovecot: imap-login: Error: Timeout waiting for handshake from auth server. my pid=10591, input bytes=0
Aug 14 22:56:36 mail dovecot: imap-login: Error: Timeout waiting for handshake from auth server. my pid=10592, input bytes=0
mail dovecot: auth: Fatal: mysql: Missing value in connect string: password-dovecot
mail dovecot: master: Error: service(auth): command startup failed, throttling for 60 secs
mail dovecot: imap-login: Disconnected: Auth process broken (disconnected before auth was ready, waited 1 secs): user=<>, rip=67.176.106.217, lip=75.148.117.91, TLS, session=<U82VTPXjvQBDsGrZ>


This configuration works, but only for local users obviously:
# 2.2.5: /usr/local/etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf
# OS: FreeBSD 9.1-RELEASE i386  
namespace inbox {
  inbox = yes
  location = 
  mailbox Drafts {
    special_use = \Drafts
  }
  mailbox Junk {
    special_use = \Junk
  }
  mailbox Sent {
    special_use = \Sent
  }
  mailbox "Sent Messages" {
    special_use = \Sent
  }
  mailbox Trash {
    special_use = \Trash
  }
  prefix = 
}
passdb {
  driver = pam
}
ssl_cert = </etc/ssl/certs/dovecot.pem
ssl_key = </etc/ssl/private/dovecot.pem
userdb {
  driver = passed
}

The dovecot-sql.conf.ext file is:
$ cat /etc/dovecot/dovecot-sql.conf.ext
driver =  mysql
connect = host=localhost dbname=postfix user=dovecot password-dovecot
default_pass_scheme = CRYPT
password_query = select password from mailbox where username ='%u'
user_query = select concat('/usr/local/virtual/', maildir) from mailbox where username = '%u;

#iterate_query = SELECT username AS user FROM users

Both to the password_query and user_query lines return the right results when I do them manually in MySQL.

The one thing I am very unsure of is the default_pass_scheme (the postfixdb is a postfixadmin db), but even if that were completely wrong, it seems like the local users should still be able to authenticate even if the MySQL ones cannot?

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