Hello,

I am trying to run exim 4.68 and dovecot 1.0.13 on Solaris 10 x86 5/08
using dovecot lda and sieve with virtual users and domains, tls and
ssl. At the moment certificates are from my internal CA Exim and
Dovecot, dovecot lda and dovecot sieve were downloaded and installed
from Blastwave. Mail delivery (ie from Exim to dovecot via dovecot
lda) is working correctly but when I try to access mail using imap
from a client (eg. Thunderbird) the login fails. My mail user for
accessing virtual user mail is vmail (uid=954, gid=954). I have
attached the messages from dovecot.log and the output of dovecot -n
below as well as contents from the passdb file.

Can anyone point me to where I've gone wrong, I've had this working
fine on Linux but Solaris just doesn't seem to want to play :-)

Thanks,

Neil

-- E neil@neologix.net

My passdb file contents: lothar# cat /opt/csw/etc/vmail/comms.neologix/passwd neil:{MD5-CRYPT}$1$Lik.5MFj$PJKYoXEfADgTiK1PI6aa01:954:954::/export/ home/vmail/comms.neologix/users/ neil::userdb_quota=maildir:storage=10240
mail_plugins=cmusieve,quota,imap_quota sieve=.dovecot.sieve

Contents of dovecot.log: dovecot: May 12 15:13:45 Info: auth(default): passwd-file /opt/csw/etc/ vmail/comms.neologix/passwd: Read 2 users dovecot: May 12 15:13:45 Info: auth(default): passwd-file(neil@comms.neologix ,192.168.1.100): lookup: user=neil file=/opt/csw/etc/vmail/ comms.neologix/passwd dovecot: May 12 15:13:45 Info: auth(default): client out: OK
1 user=neil@comms.neologix
mail_plugins=cmusieve,quota,imap_quota sieve=.dovecot.sieve dovecot: May 12 15:13:45 Error: user neil@comms.neologix: Logins with
login_user's UID 954 not permitted (see http://wiki.dovecot.org/ UserIds). dovecot: May 12 15:13:45 Info: auth(default): master in:
REQUEST 1 16850 1 dovecot: May 12 15:13:45 Info: auth(default):
passwd(neil@comms.neologix,192.168.1.100): lookup dovecot: May 12 15:13:45 Info: auth(default):
passwd(neil@comms.neologix,192.168.1.100): unknown user dovecot: May 12 15:13:45 Info: auth(default): passwd-file(neil@comms.neologix ,192.168.1.100): lookup: user=neil file=/opt/csw/etc/vmail/ comms.neologix/passwd dovecot: May 12 15:13:45 Info: auth(default): master out: USER
1 neil@comms.neologix uid=954 gid=954 home=/export/home/ vmail/comms.neologix/users/neil quota=maildir:storage=10240 dovecot: May 12 15:13:45 Info: imap-login: Internal login failure:
user=neil@comms.neologix, method=PLAIN, rip=192.168.1.100,
lip=192.168.1.229, TLS

The output from dovecot -n is:

lothar# dovecot -n # 1.0.13: /opt/csw/etc/dovecot.conf base_dir: /opt/csw/var/run/dovecot/ log_path: /opt/csw/var/log/dovecot.log ssl_cert_file: /opt/csw/ssl/certs/dovecot-cert.pem ssl_key_file: /opt/csw/ssl/private/dovecot-key-np.pem verbose_ssl: yes login_dir: /opt/csw/var/run/dovecot//login login_executable: /opt/csw/libexec/dovecot/imap-login login_user: vmail first_valid_uid: 900 last_valid_uid: 1900 first_valid_gid: 900 last_valid_gid: 1900 mail_location: maildir:%h/Maildir mail_debug: yes auth default: username_format: %Lu verbose: yes debug: yes debug_passwords: yes passdb: driver: passwd-file args: /opt/csw/etc/vmail/%d/passwd userdb: driver: passwd userdb: driver: passwd-file args: /opt/csw/etc/vmail/%d/passwd socket: type: listen client: path: /opt/csw/var/run/dovecot/auth-client mode: 432 master: path: /opt/csw/var/run/dovecot/auth-master mode: 384 user: vmail group: vmail plugin: sieve: %h/.dovecot.sieve quota: maildir