Hello
Actually im not using PAM at all. So yes its true i could drop that. But i see that you have put additional empty double colons in your passwd file which i didn't. So maybe this is the issue? I will try.
Thank you
From: Aki Tuomi <aki.tuomi@open-xchange.com> Sent: Tuesday, November 19, 2019 10:49 PM To: Andrej Rehak <andrej.rehak@outlook.com>; dovecot@dovecot.org <dovecot@dovecot.org> Subject: Re: Dovecot can't log in Virtual user - please help
On 19.11.2019 19.21, Andrej Rehak via dovecot wrote: Hello
Im having issues login to dovecot using imap through telnet.
Im running Linux 4.9.0-11-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 4.9.189-3+deb9u1 (2019-09-20) x86_64 GNU/Linux
Im totally new to setting up mailservers. I havesetup a postfix for SMTP and it can receive emails. Postfix version is mail_version = 3.1.12
I have also installed Dovecot version:2.2.27 (c0f36b0) My configuration is such that POSTFIX is configured to use DOVECOT SASL through local socket.
My system is configured to store emails in /var/mail/owndomain.org/<username>. For each domain i have my own passwd file where dovecot is supposed to lookup usernames and passwords. /var/mail/owndomain.org/passwd.
I have created virtualuser for accessing mails and authenticating users. My dovecot (dovecot -n output) configuration is:
# 2.2.27 (c0f36b0): /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf # Pigeonhole version 0.4.16 (fed8554) # OS: Linux 4.9.0-11-amd64 x86_64 Debian 9.11 auth_debug = yes auth_mechanisms = plain login auth_verbose = yes debug_log_path = /var/log/dovecot-debug.log disable_plaintext_auth = no info_log_path = /var/log/dovecot-info.log listen = 192.168.2.2 log_path = /var/log/dovecot.log mail_home = /var/mail/home/%d/%n mail_location = mbox:~/mail:INBOX=/var/spool/mail/%d/%n mail_privileged_group = virtualmail namespace inbox { inbox = yes location = mailbox Drafts { special_use = \Drafts } mailbox Junk { special_use = \Junk } mailbox Sent { special_use = \Sent } mailbox "Sent Messages" { special_use = \Sent } mailbox Trash { special_use = \Trash } prefix = } passdb { driver = pam }
Are you using PAM intentionally? You might want to drop this along with userdb with passwd as driver. the passwd-file one is ok. By dropping PAM you probably get quite nice speedup, too.
But I tested your configuration locally here and it seems to work. At least with following passwd file:
$ sudo cat /var/mail/owndomain.org/passwd username:{PLAIN}password:::::
Aki