On 10/3/12 3:58 PM, Timo Sirainen wrote:

On 3.10.2012, at 22.26, list@airstreamcomm.net wrote:

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Is it possible to have separate userdb lookups for LMTP and POP/IMAP? protocol lmtp { userdb { .. } } protocol !lmtp { userdb { .. } }

Forgot to mention I am running 2.0.17.

I separated all the userdb passdb lookups into their own protocol configuration like so:

protocol imap {
     userdb { .. }
     passdb { .. }
}
protocol pop3 {
     userdb { .. }
     passdb { .. }
}
protocol lmtp {
     userdb { .. }
}

And I am getting the following error:

auth: Fatal: No passdbs specified in configuration file. PLAIN
mechanism needs one

From a previous post it appears that Dovecot cannot run without a global lookups specified:

http://www.dovecot.org/list/dovecot/2012-March/064407.html

Per the suggestion in the old post I created an empty passwdfile and included it in the auth-passwdfile which seems to have alleviated the issue, however this seems like a sub-optimal solution. Is this still the case, or is there a way to tell Dovecot that there is no global lookups?

On 10/4/12 9:58 AM, Timo Sirainen wrote:

On 4.10.2012, at 17.41, list@airstreamcomm.net wrote:

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protocol lmtp { userdb { .. } } protocol !lmtp { userdb { .. } }

Forgot to mention I am running 2.0.17. The above works in v2.1.

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And I am getting the following error:

auth: Fatal: No passdbs specified in configuration file. PLAIN mechanism needs one

From a previous post it appears that Dovecot cannot run without a global lookups specified:

http://www.dovecot.org/list/dovecot/2012-March/064407.html

Per the suggestion in the old post I created an empty passwdfile and included it in the auth-passwdfile which seems to have alleviated the issue, however this seems like a sub-optimal solution. Is this still the case, or is there a way to tell Dovecot that there is no global lookups? The !lmtp version avoids that fatal problem. So the solution is: upgrade. Timo,

I upgraded to 2.1 and configured as recommended, however I am still getting an error:

auth: Fatal: No passdbs specified in configuration file. PLAIN mechanism needs one

Doveconf -n:

# 2.1.1: /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf # OS: Linux 2.6.32-279.5.2.el6.x86_64 x86_64 CentOS release 6.3 (Final) auth_debug = yes auth_verbose = yes disable_plaintext_auth = no mail_debug = yes mail_fsync = always mail_location = maildir:~/Maildir mail_nfs_index = yes mail_nfs_storage = yes mbox_write_locks = fcntl mmap_disable = yes namespace inbox { inbox = yes location = mailbox Drafts { special_use = \Drafts } mailbox Junk { special_use = \Junk } mailbox Sent { special_use = \Sent } mailbox "Sent Messages" { special_use = \Sent } mailbox Trash { special_use = \Trash } prefix = } service imap-login { inet_listener imap { port = 143 } } service lmtp { unix_listener /var/spool/postfix/private/dovecot-lmtp { group = postfix mode = 0660 user = postfix } } service pop3-login { inet_listener pop3 { port = 110 } } ssl_cert =