[Dovecot] Resend: How do I configure sendmail to accept emails for dovecot when dovecot has sql auth/user db.

[Stewart Dean]

I don't regard myself as much of an expert, but this is NOT a Dovecot 
question, rather one relating to sendmail or your O/S native 
authentication functionality.  Speaking for myself, I run NIS/yp on my 
mailserver and then restrict login...this supplies authentication to all 
users receiving mail.  I might (but don't) run LDAP as the primary 
authentication resource on this AIX box, in which case I could then use  
LDAP when receiving mail.  Understand: Dovecot doesn't receive mail, 
sendmail does.

Scott Silva wrote:
> Joseph Silverman spake the following on 8/1/2007 5:24 PM:
>   
>> Apologies for resending this, I am not sure it made it through the first
>> time..
>> ---
>>
>> Included below are my config files: sendmail.mc, dovecot.m4,
>> dovecot.conf, dovecot-sql.conf.  Whenever I try to send email into this
>> system, it rejects it with user does not exist, however, the user does
>> exist as far as dovecot (imap) is concerned, it is in the database.
>>
>> THANKS - Yossie
>>     
> It came through the first time, but nobody has answered you yet. I don't have
> a good answer either, but you need to find a way for sendmail to use the same
> auth database, or replicate it somehow into virtualusers system.
>   

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