[Dovecot] Errors with doveadm when using checkpassword

[Timo Sirainen]

On Mon, 2013-02-04 at 12:08 -0500, Andy Dills wrote:
> We have a checkpassword authentication with mysql pre-fetch for the 
> userdb lookups.
> 
> When trying to do:
> 
> doveadm search -u andytest at xecu.net mailbox Trash DELETED
> 
> I get:
> 
> doveadm(andytest at xecu.net): Error: user andytest at xecu.net: Auth PASS 
> lookup failed
> doveadm(andytest at xecu.net): Fatal: /var/run/dovecot/auth-userdb: passdb 
> lookup failed (to see if user is proxied, because doveadm_proxy_port is 
> set)

Do you have proxying enabled? If not, remove doveadm_proxy_port and this
solves itself.

> I'm not surprised the checkpassword lookup is failing; the password 
> isn't being supplied. Shouldn't it just be doing the prefetch lookup 
> instead, like the lmtp service?

doveadm doesn't care about the password. It cares about the proxy
destination host so that it can automatically connect to the correct
host to run the command.