[Dovecot] Specifying passwd-file with virtual domains?

[Jiří Bourek]

On 03/31/2014 10:13 PM, Jeffrey Walton wrote:
> I'm trying to use virtual domains and I'm suffering a disconnect.
>
> I have two domains - foo.com and bar.com. On the filesystem, they are
> located at /var/mail/foo.com/ and /var/mail/bar.com/. Users are
> located at /var/mail/foo.com/john/, /var/mail/bar.com/jane/, etc.
>
> There are two password files with <user>:<scheme><password> entries.
> The scheme is {PLAIN}. They are located at /var/mail/foo.com/users and
> /var/mail/bar.com/users. According to the wiki, these are passwd-file
> databases (http://wiki2.dovecot.org/AuthDatabase/PasswdFile).
>
> I specified the following in my dovecot.conf.
>
> passdb {
>    args = /var/mail/%d/users
>    driver = passwd-file
> }
>
> Attempts to use the configuration result in an authentication failure.
> Here's an entry from dovecot.log when the failure happens:
>
> Mar 31 16:04:12 imap-login: Info: Disconnected (auth failed, 1
> attempts in 5 secs): user=<jeff at foo.com>, method=PLAIN, rip=127.0.0.1,
> lip=127.0.1.1, secured, session=<n5/ajez1FgB/AAAB>
>

Did you try setting auth_verbose = yes ?