[Dovecot] dovecot %u variable problem....

[Kris Weston]

On 25/04/12 11:48, Timo Sirainen wrote:
> On 25.4.2012, at 9.17, Kris wrote:
>
>> but then this happens when i attempt to send mail and this means the user gets rejected because dovecot cant find the user id in the db without the correct string (i.e. user at domain):
>> localhost dovecot: auth: Debug: sql(admin,xx.xx.xx.xx): query: SELECT id as user, crypt as password FROM users WHERE id= 'admin'
> What exactly is doing this lookup? SMTP AUTH? Maybe the client's SMTP authentication is configured without the @domain part in username?
>
saslauthd via a query in dovecot-sql.conf.ext? after these suggestions 
im pretty sure nobody here has a clue about this, and this is not a 
known problem, i cant find anyone on the internet with it and the query 
is quite clearly coming up wrong and the unchangeable variable is quite 
clearly changing.

the client can not be sending out different usernames every second 
surely. i put the username in myself in thunderbird, double, triple 
checked, made other accounts etc, the username changes by the second, 
ive watched the sql queries go in and they change for no obvious reason.