[Dovecot] Dovecot doesn't read users and passwords from config files

[Marco Fioretti]

On Sun, Aug 03, 2008 00:18:34 AM +0200, Marco Fioretti wrote:
> Greetings,
> 
> I am setting up Dovecot 1.0.15 on my home Fedora Core 8 pc ONLY to
> access my mail archives across several mail clients. No access from
> the internet is possible or needed here.
> 
> I cannot log in with any client, the login always fails.

I forgot to add that, _before_ I changed the password and user files
to what I reported, that is when the defaults in dovecot.conf were for
authorization with system usernames and passwords, everything was
fine. Is when I changed the auth mechanism that problem started.

Marco