On Mon, Mar 31, 2014 at 6:29 PM, Joseph Tam <jtam.home@gmail.com> wrote:

Jeffrey Walton <noloader@gmail.com> writes:

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I specified the following in my dovecot.conf.

passdb { args = /var/mail/%d/users driver = passwd-file }

Attempts to use the configuration result in an authentication failure. Here's an entry from dovecot.log when the failure happens:

Mar 31 16:04:12 imap-login: Info: Disconnected (auth failed, 1 attempts in 5 secs): user=<jeff@foo.com>, method=PLAIN, rip=127.0.0.1, lip=127.0.1.1, secured, session=<n5/ajez1FgB/AAAB>

Just to confirm, your <user> specified in the passdb corresponds to what is being authenticated (i.e. client is authenticating as "jeff@foo.com", not "jeff")? Otherwise, you'll need to add domains to your passdb, or configure "username_format=%n" Yes, I believe so:

$ sudo cat /var/mail/foo.com/users # Generate passwords with: # doveadm pw -s PLAIN -p <password>

# Real users tad@foo.com:{PLAIN}some-password jeff@foo.com:{PLAIN}some-password

In case it matters, here are the Postfix settings (but they should not apply since this is an IMAP exercise):

$ sudo cat /etc/postfix/mailboxes

# Real users
tad@foo.com foo.com/tad/
jeff@foo.com foo.com/jeff/

Its compiled with postmap:

postmap /etc/postfix/mailboxes

And then specified in main.cf with:

virtual_mailbox_maps = hash:/etc/postfix/mailboxes

And my two domains are handled similarly in domains.

Jeff