[Dovecot] Authentication woes - Couldn't drop privileges: Mail access not allowed for root

[Ralph Seichter]

On 20.08.10 20:36, Timo Sirainen wrote:

> I guess you should add:
>
> userdb {
>   args = scheme=crypt /usr/local/dovecot-2.0/etc/dovecot/passwd
>   driver = passwd-file
> }

I think you meant "args = /usr/local/dovecot-2.0/etc/dovecot/passwd",
without "scheme=crypt". Adding the userdb setting to my Dovecot config
does the trick, thank you!

> The error message is bad though. I'm pretty sure it was better in
> v1.2. I'll see about fixing that.

Good idea. The current message is rather misleading.

-Ralph