Timo - Sorry: We forwarded one of the many dovecot.confs we've been playing with; (that one had auth turned off;)
We're using "sendmail." Here's the auth dovecot.conf;
# 1.0.7: /etc/dovecot.conf protocols: imaps pop3s login_dir: /var/run/dovecot/login login_executable(default): /usr/libexec/dovecot/imap-login login_executable(imap): /usr/libexec/dovecot/imap-login login_executable(pop3): /usr/libexec/dovecot/pop3-login mail_debug: yes mail_executable(default): /usr/libexec/dovecot/imap mail_executable(imap): /usr/libexec/dovecot/imap mail_executable(pop3): /usr/libexec/dovecot/pop3 mail_plugins(default): quota imap_quota mail_plugins(imap): quota imap_quota mail_plugins(pop3): quota mail_plugin_dir(default): /usr/lib/dovecot/imap mail_plugin_dir(imap): /usr/lib/dovecot/imap mail_plugin_dir(pop3): /usr/lib/dovecot/pop3 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 socket: type: listen client: path: /var/run/dovecot/auth-client mode: 432 master: path: /var/run/dovecot/auth-master mode: 384 plugin: quota: fs:User quota:user
On Fri, July 17, 2009 12:55 pm, Timo Sirainen wrote:
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
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