Cannot log in to IMAP server and logs are unclear as to why

Christian Schmidt Christian.Schmidt at chemie.uni-hamburg.de
Sun Jun 7 00:52:37 EEST 2020


On 05.06.20 22:42, Scott A. Wozny wrote:
> Again, thanks very much for your response. Your solution of adding the colons worked. Actually, I futzed with it a little bit and it works with as few as 2 added colons.
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> This is interesting since in the examples section ofhttps://doc.dovecot.org/configuration_manual/authentication/passwd_file/  it explicitly states:
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> This file can be used as a passdb:

The error message in your log was:

> Jun 3 23:35:34 imap dovecot: auth: Error: passwd-file /etc/dovecot/users: User test at test.com is missing userdb info

passdb != userdb

Kind Regards
Christian Schmidt

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