Hi All,

My Dovecot was working I made a change and receive this error

Sep 13 17:01:42 geomail dovecot: imap-login: Internal login failure (auth failed, 1 attempts): user=<user>, method=PLAIN, rip=xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx, lip=192.168.1.80, TLS Sep 13 17:01:43 geomail dovecot: dovecot: Relative home directory paths not supported (user user):

I had changed

mechanisms = plain to mechanisms = plain login

I removed the extra login and it still reports the same error, I must have changed something else by mistake, but I just cannot see what I have done, I was stupid and the backup config is older and not working properly with shared files:-(

dovecot -n gives

# 1.2.9: /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf # OS: Linux 2.6.32-24-server x86_64 Ubuntu 10.04.1 LTS ext3 log_timestamp: %Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S protocols: imaps pop3s ssl_cert_file: /etc/ssl/certs/ssl-cert-dovecot.pem ssl_key_file: /etc/ssl/private/ssl-cert-dovecot.key login_dir: /var/run/dovecot/login login_executable(default): /usr/lib/dovecot/imap-login login_executable(imap): /usr/lib/dovecot/imap-login login_executable(pop3): /usr/lib/dovecot/pop3-login mail_privileged_group: mail mail_location: maildir:/home/%u/Maildir mbox_write_locks: fcntl dotlock mail_executable(default): /usr/lib/dovecot/imap mail_executable(imap): /usr/lib/dovecot/imap mail_executable(pop3): /usr/lib/dovecot/pop3 mail_plugins(default): deleted_to_trash acl imap_acl mail_plugins(imap): deleted_to_trash acl imap_acl mail_plugins(pop3): mail_plugin_dir(default): /usr/lib/dovecot/modules/imap mail_plugin_dir(imap): /usr/lib/dovecot/modules/imap mail_plugin_dir(pop3): /usr/lib/dovecot/modules/pop3 imap_client_workarounds(default): delay-newmail outlook-idle netscape-eoh imap_client_workarounds(imap): delay-newmail outlook-idle netscape-eoh imap_client_workarounds(pop3): pop3_client_workarounds(default): pop3_client_workarounds(imap): pop3_client_workarounds(pop3): outlook-no-nuls oe-ns-eoh namespace: type: private separator: / inbox: yes list: yes subscriptions: yes namespace: type: public separator: / prefix: public/ location: maildir:/var/mail/public/:CONTROL=~/Maildir/control/public:INDEX=~/Maildir/index/public list: yes namespace: type: shared separator: / prefix: shared/%%u/ location: maildir:%%h/Maildir:INDEX=~/Maildir/shared/%%u list: yes lda: postmaster_address: user@domain mail_plugins: acl auth default: passdb: driver: pam userdb: driver: passwd args: home= socket: type: listen client: path: /var/spool/postfix/private/auth mode: 432 user: postfix group: postfix master: path: /var/run/dovecot/auth-master mode: 384 plugin: deleted_to_trash_folder: Trash acl: vfile acl_shared_dict: file:/var/lib/dovecot/shared-mailboxes.db

Thank you

Ian