[Dovecot] LMTP userdb lookup

[Timo Sirainen]

On 4.10.2012, at 17.41, list at airstreamcomm.net wrote:

>> protocol lmtp {
>>   userdb {
>>     ..
>>   }
>> }
>> protocol !lmtp {
>>   userdb {
>>     ..
>>   }
>> }
>> 
>> 
> Forgot to mention I am running 2.0.17.

The above works in v2.1.

> And I am getting the following error:
> 
>   auth: Fatal: No passdbs specified in configuration file. PLAIN
>   mechanism needs one
> 
> 
> From a previous post it appears that Dovecot cannot run without a global lookups specified:
> 
>   http://www.dovecot.org/list/dovecot/2012-March/064407.html
> 
> Per the suggestion in the old post I created an empty passwdfile and included it in the auth-passwdfile which seems to have alleviated the issue, however this seems like a sub-optimal solution.  Is this still the case, or is there a way to tell Dovecot that there is no global lookups?

The !lmtp version avoids that fatal problem. So the solution is: upgrade.