Hi Folks, I'm hoping some one can set me straight here please.

Postfix 2.1.5 Dovecot 0.99.11-2

I have Postfix set up on a new box with Virtual Domains and Virtual Users using MailDir format with their mail homes in /var/spool/mail/<domain>/<user>

I want Dovecot to login using PAM Authentication. The idea is to host multiple domains which each have multiple aliases which resolve to one email account for their respective domain but using a user name which actually _is_ a system user.

So I might have;

jo@abc.com joe@abc.com joey@abc.com pete@abc.com peter@abc.com

jo@xyz.com joe@xyz.com joey@xyz.com pete@xyz.com peter@xyz.com

where 'joe' and 'peter' are both system users each with mail homes of;

/var/spool/mail/abc.com/joe /var/spool/mail/abc.com/peter

/var/spool/mail/xyz.com/joe /var/spool/mail/xyz.com/peter

In my dovecot.conf, I have;

auth_userdb = static uid=89 gid=89 home=/var/spool/mail/%d/%u auth_passdb = pam

If I login with just 'joe', I get;

Fatal: chdir(/var/spool/mail//joe) failed with uid 89: Not a directory

Fair enough, that sounds logical to me. But if I then login with 'joe@abc.com', I get;

PAM: pam_authenticate(joe@abc.com) failed: Authentication failure

So it appears Dovecot is checking PAM for 'joe@abc.com' rather than just 'joe'. How can I make it check for just 'joe' please?

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Kind Regards

Kyle