[Dovecot] Dovecot auth error

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On Sun, Aug 25, 2013 at 04:33:49AM -0700, mehrdad nosrati wrote:
> I'm newbie to Squirrelmail and just installed Dovecot in
> CentOS6.3. When I try to login to the Squirrelmail, then I get
> the following error:
> 
>  auth: Info: passwd(myusername at myserver.com): unknown user

http://wiki2.dovecot.org/QuickConfiguration#Authentication

For system/PAM users, typically you'd also tell your MUA 
(Squirrelmail here) to omit the @domain from the username.

> my config file is as follow:
> 
> # /usr/bin/doveconf -n -c /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf
> 
> 
> # 2.0.9: /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf
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