Re: [Dovecot] SASL plain authentication failed; unable to lookup user record

Hi

On Wed, 09.12.2009 @ 11:21:56AM, JP wrote:

when i attempt to use smtp auth from a mail client, postfix says

SASL plain authentication failed unable to lookup user record

You did not send your master.cf from postfix, am I right? AFAIK smtpd is running in a chroot. For this, your config seems to be correct. Have you already tried to set a chmod 777 on the socket? Another point is to check whether dovecot could even open the location -> check the permissions of the topfolders (/var/, /var/spool, ...).

Another try would be to check whether it work without a chroot?

I dunno whether this helps that much... but often the mistakes are small.

Regards raf