Hey all

Just upgraded to Test-61 and at first everything looked like it worked without a hitch, I could log in and check mail (yay! ;-) ).

Since I could log in, I never suspected anything would be amiss. Later one of my users told me he could no longer log in, regardless what he tried. Password error I thought and told him to go change his password, but then he explained he had not changed anything, and that his pop3 client just started complaining.

Ok, time to go looking - I compared the dovecot.conf to the example from the tarball, nothing seemed as if it had changed. Then I started fiddling around to see if I could get any pattern.

At that point I had two auth channels: auth default { mechanisms = plain userdb = sql /usr/local/etc/dovecot/sql.conf passdb = sql /usr/local/etc/dovecot/sql.conf user = mail }

auth localuser { mechanisms = plain userdb = passwd home=/home/%u/Mail passdb = passwd home=/home/%u/Mail }

Strangely enough I could see it connecting to the SQL database, I would have expected to see at least some queries when it checked for the user. But no.

So I changed the configuration to: auth default { mechanisms = plain userdb = passwd home=/home/%u/Mail passdb = passwd home=/home/%u/Mail }

auth virtualuser { mechanisms = plain userdb = sql /usr/local/etc/dovecot/sql.conf passdb = sql /usr/local/etc/dovecot/sql.conf user = mail }

Lo and behold, my virtual users could log in - but now localusers could no longer. I've since then tried changing the auth default to auth localuser, but little does it do - I'm sort of out of my bounds here, everything works, but only if it is the second auth.

The first channel seems to be ignored. So I tried adding more channels seeing what would happen. My current configuration looks like this:

auth default { mechanisms = plain userdb = sql /usr/local/etc/dovecot/sql.conf passdb = sql /usr/local/etc/dovecot/sql.conf user = mail }

auth localuser { mechanisms = plain userdb = passwd home=/home/%u/Mail passdb = passwd home=/home/%u/Mail }

auth virtualuser { mechanisms = plain userdb = sql /usr/local/etc/dovecot/sql.conf passdb = sql /usr/local/etc/dovecot/sql.conf user = mail }

As I suspected it grabs hold of localuser and uses that one.

Any suggestions or "Well d'uh! you're missing...." would be welcome ;-)

Friendly greetings S. P. Skou

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