[Dovecot] passwd(contact at akairnet.com, 91.121.76.71): unknown user

[Daniel Luttermann]

Kurt22 wrote on 12.08.2010:

> So now I want to recieve and send a email. But it's strange because I have
> always in my dovecot log passwd(contact at akairnet.com, 91.121.76.71): unknown
> user.....

> So it not was the problem....

hmm, maybe Dovecot tries to lookup the user also from /etc/passwd?

Do you use something like

passdb sql {
    args = /etc/dovecot-sql.conf
  }
  passdb pam {
  }

in your dovecot.conf? If yes, then you can try to uncomment the pam
related settings. Dovecot can use multiple databases so I guess that
Dovecot tries to lookup the user first from /etc/passwd and then from
your mysql database. More infos:
http://wiki.dovecot.org/Authentication/MultipleDatabases

> Thanks really if you going in france I take you a good bottle wine :D

Thank you :-)

--
Daniel