I'm following a tutorial[1] on how to configure dovecot and the tutorial says to insert the following configuration options into the dovecot.conf file:

disable_plaintext_auth = no mail_privileged_group = mail mail_location = mbox:~/mail:INBOX=/var/mail/%u userdb { driver = passwd }

This seems to have worked for a lot of others using this tutorial but not for me. When I try to start dovecot, I am told that the section at userdb is an unknown section type.

I've spent the last few hours on Google searching this out and I've gotten conflicting answers that don't make sense. Is this the proper way to use the userdb directive?

For information, I've also tried

userdb{ driver = passwd-file }

and that didn't work either. So I'm assuming that perhaps userdb is deprecated somehow but I don't know what to replace it with. Can someone point me in the right direction?

Many Thanks! CypherPunk

[1] https://www.digitalocean.com/community/articles/how-to-set-up-a-postfix-e-ma...