More on problems with new install

Aki Tuomi aki.tuomi at open-xchange.com
Tue Oct 22 11:43:17 EEST 2019


Can you show what you ended up pasting?

Aki

On 22.10.2019 11.34, Steve Matzura via dovecot wrote:
> I pasted that block at the end of dovecot.conf, restarted, and got the
> following in syslog:
>
> Oct 22 08:24:32 tgvprod dovecot[7290]: doveconf: Fatal: Error in
> configuration file /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf line 106: Expecting '{'
> Oct 22 08:24:32 tgvprod systemd[1]: dovecot.service: Main process
> exited, code=exited, status=89/n/a
> Oct 22 08:24:32 tgvprod systemd[1]: dovecot.service: Failed with
> result 'exit-code'.
>
> On 10/22/2019 4:00 AM, Aki Tuomi via dovecot wrote:
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> On 22.10.2019 10.33, Steve Matzura via dovecot wrote:
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> Sorry for having lost the original chain of this problem. It's been a
> very long day.
>
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> <snip/>
>
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> There is no user 'rock', it's just a Postfix mailbox.
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> You problem stems from dovecot doing user lookup using
> 'rock at theglobalvoice.info'
> which is why it breaks.
>
> So, to fix this, and retain what you have configured you need to do bit
> silly config (this is hopefully getting fixed in 2.3 series at some
> point).
>
> passdb {
>     driver = static
>     args = noauthenticate temp_user=%u user=%Ln
> }
>
> passdb {
>     driver  = pam
> }
>
> passdb {
>     driver = static
>     args = noautenticate user=%{passdb:temp_user}
>     skip = unauthenticated
> }
>
> Aki
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