[Dovecot] [SOLVED] Cannot authenticate with new Red Hat/Fedora SHA512

[John Cooper]

On 02/01/2011 04:13 PM, Pascal Volk wrote:
> On 02/01/2011 05:01 PM John Cooper wrote:
>> # 2.0.9: /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf
>> # OS: Linux 2.6.35.10-74.fc14.i686 i686 Fedora release 14 (Laughlin)
>> mbox_write_locks = fcntl
>> passdb {
>>     driver = pam
>> }
>> ssl_cert =</etc/pki/dovecot/certs/dovecot.pem
>> ssl_key =</etc/pki/dovecot/private/dovecot.pem
>> userdb {
>>     driver = passwd
>> }
>>
> Hm, looks good so far. What was logged to your maillog?
> You may also set auth_verbose = yes in your conf.d/10-logging.conf
>
>
> Regards,
> Pascal
Looking in secure.log as authentication error, didn't get to maillog. 
maillog had error :-

dovecot: imap(usser1): Error: user user1: Initialization failed: 
mail_location not set and autodetection failed:
  Mail storage autodetection failed with home=/home/user1

So added this to dovecot.conf

mail_location = mbox:~/mail:INBOX=/var/mail/%u

Restarted dovecot and everything now works.

Thanks, John.