On 2026.08.22 15:28, The Doctor via dovecot wrote:
On Sat, Aug 22, 2026 at 10:02:29AM +0200, Kurt Jaeger wrote:
Hi!
Something is not correct.
Dovecot 2.3 ports does work, but not the 2.4 ports
dovecot 2.4 is really not a simple upgrade. The config files need to be changed in some manner.
Here are errors I am seeing [...] lain): Finished plain passdb verification (status=user-unknown) Aug 21 15:01:01 auth(dave,10.14.0.4,sasl:plain)<f5oT75RZzsYKDgAE>: Debug: sasl(plain): Interaction failed
So your passdb lookup failed. Did you change anything in your configs to adapt to the new syntax ?
https://doc.dovecot.org/2.4.0/installation/upgrade/2.3-to-2.4.html
Let me read.
I did the conversion and the LLMs are really of no help.
-- pi@FreeBSD.org +49 171 3101372 Now what ?
This was quite helpful in my case: https://dovecot.org/upgrader/ LLMs usually proposed outdated syntax. You may paste just a part of your config or the whole config.
Dw.
dr Tóth Attila, Radiológus, 06-20-825-8057 Attila Toth MD, Radiologist, +36-20-825-8057