[Dovecot] Solution???: 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. The reason,
> as I understand, is that when dovecot starts it doesn't read any user
> name from the userdb file, so when I try to login it doesn't recognize
> my name and so doesn't even try to verify the password:
> 
> maillog excerpt:
> 
> Aug  3 00:06:11 polaris dovecot: Dovecot v1.0.15 starting up
> Aug  3 00:06:11 polaris dovecot: auth(default): passwd-file /etc/local_dovecot_passwords: Read 0 users
> 
> local_dovecot_passwords:
> marco:{PLAIN}thepassword:500:500::/home/marco/.MAIL/home_imap/

adding a newline to the line above solves the problem...

Marco