I'm sure I'm missing something obvious :-(
Dovecot version 1.1.6, pam authentication via ldap (openldap). basicly, we use:
passdb pam userdb passwd
which work fine, except for Outlook/OL Express users that are asked for their password whenever they "send/receive"... We've had also "passdb shadow" that somehow "fixed" this but allowed also users with expired passwords to login :-( re-added for now, untill the correct configuration is achived).
Here is the output of dovecot -n:
# 1.1.6: /usr/local/etc/dovecot.conf # OS: Linux 2.6.9-55.ELsmp x86_64 Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS release 4 (Nahant Update 7) info_log_path: /var/log/dovecot protocols: imap imaps pop3 pop3s listen(default): * listen(imap): * listen(pop3): *:110 ssl_listen(default): ssl_listen(imap): ssl_listen(pop3): *:995 ssl_ca_file: /usr/local/etc/dovecot/certs/IPS-IPSCABUNDLE.CRT ssl_cert_file: /usr/local/etc/dovecot/certs/dovecot.pem ssl_key_file: /usr/local/etc/dovecot/private/dovecot.pem disable_plaintext_auth: no verbose_ssl: yes login_dir: /usr/local/var/run/dovecot/login login_executable(default): /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/imap-login login_executable(imap): /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/imap-login login_executable(pop3): /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/pop3-login first_valid_uid: 50 mail_debug: yes mail_full_filesystem_access: yes mmap_disable: yes lock_method: dotlock mbox_read_locks: dotlock mbox_write_locks: dotlock mail_executable(default): /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/imap mail_executable(imap): /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/imap mail_executable(pop3): /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/pop3 mail_plugin_dir(default): /usr/local/lib/dovecot/imap mail_plugin_dir(imap): /usr/local/lib/dovecot/imap mail_plugin_dir(pop3): /usr/local/lib/dovecot/pop3 imap_client_workarounds(default): outlook-idle delay-newmail imap_client_workarounds(imap): outlook-idle delay-newmail imap_client_workarounds(pop3): pop3_uidl_format(default): %08Xu%08Xv pop3_uidl_format(imap): %08Xu%08Xv pop3_uidl_format(pop3): %08Xv%08Xu pop3_client_workarounds(default): pop3_client_workarounds(imap): pop3_client_workarounds(pop3): outlook-no-nuls oe-ns-eoh namespace: type: private separator: / prefix: mail/ location: mbox:%h/mail list: yes subscriptions: yes namespace: type: private separator: / location: maildir:%h/Maildir:INDEX=/var/dovecot/index/%u:CONTROL=/var/dovecot/control/%u inbox: yes list: yes subscriptions: yes auth default: verbose: yes debug: yes worker_max_request_count: 10 passdb: driver: pam args: dovecot passdb: driver: shadow userdb: driver: passwd args: blocking=yes
Thank you for your help.
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