[Dovecot] Errors with doveadm when using checkpassword

[Timo Sirainen]

On 5.2.2013, at 14.53, Andy Dills <andy at xecu.net> wrote:

> On Tue, 5 Feb 2013, Timo Sirainen wrote:
> 
>> I think you need to remove doveadm_proxy_port from the backend
>> dovecot.conf. Then it doesn't perform the PASS lookup. But you also
>> should run doveadm via the proxy instance so that it gets run in the
>> correct server (doveadm -c /etc/dovecot/proxy.conf or doveadm -i proxy
>> if you've given it a name).
> 
> On a seperate note I'm sure a lot of people would benefit from -c/-i being 
> mentioned on http://wiki2.dovecot.org/Tools/Doveadm. 
> 
> You are one man with only so much time so I tried registering on the wiki 
> to propose an edit for you, but I'm not allowed. I think all we need is to 
> know that -c and -i exist, and a note about how people in proxy/director 
> configurations need to make sure to tell doveadm to communicate with the 
> instance that is running director. 

The Doveadm wiki pages are generated from man pages that exist in Dovecot source code. Feel free to send patches for them. :)

> For some reason, my intuition would be that since doveadm is aware of both 
> instances, that it should be aware of which one's config to use for 
> connecting to director for proxy information. 


Too dangerous to do that kind of guessing. You could write your own doveadm script/alias though.