[Dovecot] Proxy setup & upgrade from 1.0.3 to 1.1.7

[Timo Sirainen]

On Oct 6, 2009, at 5:54 AM, Adrian Wojcicki | Unternehmensberatung  
Wojcicki wrote:

> We have a server running dovecot and proxying IMAPS connections to  
> our internal network. This worked so far very good until we upgraded  
> the server to a new SUSE Linux version and with it dovecot from  
> version 1.0.3 to 1.1.7.
>
> My guess is that something changed in the way dovecot reads the user  
> file as the configuration stayed the same:
..
> testuser1:::::::host=<internalip> port=143 nodelay=y nologin=y proxy=y
..
> dovecot: Oct 06 10:37:39 Info: auth(default): passwd- 
> file(testuser1,217.91.33.32): Password mismatch

Yes, nowadays you need to add nopassword=y also. http://wiki.dovecot.org/Upgrading/1.1 
  also mentions other things that could affect you.