[Dovecot] Probs authenticating to Dovecot

[Steffen Kaiser]

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On Mon, 15 Apr 2013, Kris Magnusson wrote:

> I will blow this VM away and start from scratch. Unless anyone has any concrete suggestions I can implement before then that I can use to salvage a day's worth of work.

If you want to debug this config further, I would

1) enable auth_debug in Dovcot, see http://wiki2.dovecot.org/Logging
2) check with telnet if authentification works in Dovecot
3) check if SMTP AUTH works

If you don't trust ISPConfig, then ignore this VM, check out the Dovecot 
Wiki2 and its Postfix howto.

> Is there a best possible OS for running Dovecot/Postfix? That would be a step in the right direction. Ubuntu is great for running WordPress, but I recognize there are different OSes out there. I don't care if it's Linux-based or a BSD distribution.

I don't think there is a "best" OS. You could compile Dovecot yourself, 
the development packages of dependencies are available in most (all?) 
distributions, then you are not stuck on one particular version of 
Dovecot.

> Will Dovecot/Postfix scale without a RDBMS backing it up? Or will OpenLDAP suffice?

Dovecot will work fine with OpenLDAP, esp. because it implements caching.

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Steffen Kaiser
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