[Dovecot] dovecot is working, sort of

[Tom Hendrikx]

On 08/15/2013 07:13 AM, LuKreme wrote:
> 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.
> 
<snip>
> and I get the following errors for *ALL* attempts to connect, not
> just sql ones:
<snip>
> 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
<snip>
> 
> 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

I see a typo there, and the error message is referring to it. Maybe try
password=dovecot?

The reason that all authentications fail (also the non sql ones), is
because the auth process (that handles all authentications) dies because
of the typo.

Tom

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