[Dovecot] Dovecot login failing

[Rik Ellis]

Hi John,

You are correct. Something has changed in default behaviors between a 
previous version I had installed and the latest one. I have disabled it 
while I work out what. Means some of my friends can't get to their mail 
remotely at the moment, but at least mine works now :)

Rik

John Robinson wrote:
> On 12/07/2007 23:19, Timo Sirainen wrote:
>> On Thu, 2007-07-12 at 15:12 +0100, Richard Ellis wrote:
>>> auth default:
>>>   passdb:
>>>     driver: pam
>>>   userdb:
>>>     driver: passwd
>>
>> You have no auth settings that change the username, so it must be
>> Squirrelmail that adds it.
>
> I suspect the vlogin plugin. Quoting 
> http://www.squirrelmail.org/plugin_view.php?id=47 :
>
> Some of Vlogin's helpful features include:
>
>     * make sure all usernames given on login page do not have any 
> domain portion in them
>     * make sure all usernames given on login page have the 
> SquirrelMail default domain appended to them
>     * make sure all usernames given on login page have the domain that 
> corresponds to the domain in the URL of the login page appended to them
>     * allow users to log in with just a "user" when in fact their IMAP 
> login might be something like "username at domain.com"
>
> Cheers,
>
> John.