On Friday 13 Jan 2006 11:10, Chris Wakelin wrote:
Which version of Dovecot are you using?
Looking back at your original post, it seems you may actually be using Dovecot 0.99.xx, not 1.0 as you said, after all!
Thanks for the speedy reply.
Sorry - somewhere, when I first started, I read 1.0, but you are quite correct. It is actually 0.99.14.
Certainly "auth_userdb = passwd-file /etc/imap.passwd" is 0.99.xx syntax, and "mechanisms" isn't valid, it's "auth_mechanisms" etc.
In earlier versions of 1.0, it was "userdb = passwd-file /etc/imap.passwd" and in the latest versions (Dovecot-1.0-alpha5) it is as I said in my first reply.
Dovecot-1.0-alpha5 probably has fewer bugs than 0.99.x despite the name, so I'd strongly recommend upgrading. Timo's promised us a "beta1" version in the next few days which will have only a few minor changes from alpha5.
I'll do that as soon as I can, but for now I really need to get this working.
Assuming you are using 0.99.x, what do you have as "auth_user"?
root
If it's not root, does it have permissions to read /etc/imap.passwd? Do you have "disable_plaintext_auth" set to "no" (if it's "yes" then it won't allow you to login unless you're using TLS or SSL).
It's set to 'no'
OK - I've changed everything to auth_whatever, but now it's not happy with 'args'. Is that different as well?
Anne
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