[Dovecot] Telnet access creates new maildir folders

[Ed W]

On 02/01/2011 12:40, Seasoul wrote:
> Thinking I should look into PAM , this is my config:
>
..
> Now, when I try to log to Dovecot via telnet using "user1 at domain.com" as
> username, authentication fails and Dovecot log shows:
>
..
> Which makes sense because I don't have a "user1 at domain.com" set up as a user
> on my server. Only "user1"
> Should I have one ? I'm confused, I thought creating just the user par of
> user at domain.com would be enough, is it not ?

I didn't read the entire chain completely, but your problem sounds like 
an issue with either two authentication options (PAM and sql) or a 
normalisation issue with usernames

 From your latest email I sense that you might be creating users in an 
SQL database AND as local users?

Previously the issue seemed to be that you wanted to auth as "user1", 
but then have dovecot treat the user as "user1 at abcd.com"?  This can be 
done, but you need some way to add the default domain, and that will 
require extra configuration?

My best guess is that you have two authentication sources at present 
though?  From what you describe you should probably be switching to 
using the Dovecot sql user/passwd auth config?

Good luck

Ed W