More on problems with new install

[Aki Tuomi]

Yes, well, can you paste your entire dovecot.conf file then? Remember to
redact passwords.

Aki

On 22.10.2019 12.01, Steve Matzura via dovecot wrote:
> It was the three passdb blocks you sent me.
>
>
> On 10/22/2019 4:43 AM, Aki Tuomi via dovecot wrote:
>> 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:
>>> block quote
>>> On 22.10.2019 10.33, Steve Matzura via dovecot wrote:
>>> block quote
>>> Sorry for having lost the original chain of this problem. It's been a
>>> very long day.
>>>
>>> block quote end
>>> <snip/>
>>>
>>> block quote
>>> There is no user 'rock', it's just a Postfix mailbox.
>>> block quote end
>>> 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
>>> block quote end
>>>