Timo Sirainen wrote:

On Sat, 2008-09-20 at 13:44 +0500, rihad wrote:

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user rihad@bar.com .. Further investigation revealed that %u is just rihad and not rihad@bar.com.

Any hints?

You're dropping the domain somewhere. Maybe in auth_username_format? If you can't fix it, send your dovecot -n output.

I didn't change much. Here's my dovecot -n: # 1.1.3: /usr/local/etc/dovecot.conf protocols: imap imaps pop3 pop3s ssl_disable: yes disable_plaintext_auth: no login_dir: /var/run/dovecot/login login_executable(default): /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/imap-login login_executable(imap): /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/imap-login login_executable(pop3): /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/pop3-login login_greeting_capability(default): yes login_greeting_capability(imap): yes login_greeting_capability(pop3): no verbose_proctitle: yes first_valid_uid: 1000 first_valid_gid: 1000 mail_privileged_group: mail mail_location: mbox:~/mail/:INBOX=/var/mail/%u maildir_copy_preserve_filename: yes mail_executable(default): /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/imap mail_executable(imap): /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/imap mail_executable(pop3): /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/pop3 mail_plugin_dir(default): /usr/local/lib/dovecot/imap mail_plugin_dir(imap): /usr/local/lib/dovecot/imap mail_plugin_dir(pop3): /usr/local/lib/dovecot/pop3 imap_client_workarounds(default): delay-newmail netscape-eoh tb-extra-mailbox-sep imap_client_workarounds(imap): delay-newmail netscape-eoh tb-extra-mailbox-sep imap_client_workarounds(pop3): pop3_enable_last(default): no pop3_enable_last(imap): no pop3_enable_last(pop3): yes pop3_client_workarounds(default): pop3_client_workarounds(imap): pop3_client_workarounds(pop3): outlook-no-nuls oe-ns-eoh auth default: mechanisms: plain login username_format: %Ln passdb: driver: sql args: /usr/local/etc/dovecot-sql.conf userdb: driver: passwd userdb: driver: static args: uid=postfix gid=postfix home=/home/rihad/mail/%d/%n socket: type: listen client: path: /var/spool/postfix/private/auth mode: 432 user: postfix group: postfix Here's my diff -u /usr/local/share/examples/dovecot/dovecot.conf /usr/local/etc/dovecot.conf: Basically I turned off ssl, pam, ldap, and turned on static & sql. --- /usr/local/share/examples/dovecot/dovecot.conf 2008-09-19 16:47:55.000000000 +0500 +++ /usr/local/etc/dovecot.conf 2008-09-22 23:14:34.000000000 +0500 @@ -85,6 +85,7 @@ # Disable SSL/TLS support. #ssl_disable = no +ssl_disable = yes # PEM encoded X.509 SSL/TLS certificate and private key. They're opened before # dropping root privileges, so keep the key file unreadable by anyone but @@ -825,7 +826,7 @@ # database (passwd usually), you can use static userdb. # REMEMBER: You'll need /etc/pam.d/dovecot file created for PAM # authentication to actually work. - passdb pam { +# passdb pam { # [session=yes] [setcred=yes] [failure_show_msg=yes] # [cache_key=<key>] [<service name>] # @@ -854,8 +855,8 @@ # args = session=yes %Ls # args = cache_key=%u dovecot #args = dovecot - args = session=yes dovecot - } +# args = session=yes dovecot +# } # System users (NSS, /etc/passwd, or similiar) # In many systems nowadays this uses Name Service Switch, which is @@ -897,11 +898,11 @@ #} # SQL database - #passdb sql { + passdb sql { # Path for SQL configuration file. # See /usr/local/share/examples/dovecot/dovecot-sql.conf - #args = /usr/local/etc/dovecot-sql.conf - #} + args = /usr/local/etc/dovecot-sql.conf + } # LDAP database #passdb ldap { @@ -934,7 +935,7 @@ # proceses. Useful with remote NSS lookups that may block. # NOTE: Be sure to use this setting with nss_ldap or users might get # logged in as each others! - args = blocking=yes +# args = blocking=yes } # passwd-like file with specified location @@ -945,7 +946,7 @@ #} # static settings generated from template - #userdb static { + userdb static { # Template for the fields. Can return anything a userdb could normally # return. For example: # @@ -958,8 +959,8 @@ # the user verification another way, you can add allow_all_users=yes to # the args in which case the passdb lookup is skipped. # - #args = - #} + args = uid=postfix gid=postfix home=/home/rihad/mail/%d/%n + } # SQL database #userdb sql { @@ -993,7 +994,7 @@ # authentication with BSDs internally accesses shadow files, which also # requires roots. Note that this user is NOT used to access mails. # That user is specified by userdb above. - user = root +# user = root # Directory where to chroot the process. Most authentication backends don't # work if this is set, and there's no point chrooting if auth_user is root. @@ -1027,8 +1028,11 @@ # The client socket is generally safe to export to everyone. Typical use # is to export it to your SMTP server so it can do SMTP AUTH lookups # using it. - path = /var/run/dovecot/auth-client +# path = /var/run/dovecot/auth-client + path = /var/spool/postfix/private/auth mode = 0660 + user = postfix + group = postfix } } }