Re: [Dovecot] trouble setting up dovecot on Ubuntu server with mysql backend

Richard Harding wrote:

Hi Richard,

I can't see to find any other information that can help me figure out why it won't accept the password. The passwords in mysql are md5crypt passwords according to postfixadmin's conf file.

The fact that the passwords are in md5crypt format in your mysql database is the key. You need to provide this information to Dovecot. In the dovecot-sql.conf file, you need to add a parameter, called "default_pass_scheme". If you do not specify one, Dovecot defaults to PLAIN-MD5, but you need to set it to MD5, as described here:

http://wiki.dovecot.org/Authentication/PasswordSchemes

-- Anand