On Fri, 2009-07-17 at 12:47 -0400, markb@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