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Thank you very much.</div>
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<span title="" class="">It trully was a wrong passwd file format.</span></div>
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<span title="" class="">I fixed that and removed the PAM driver dependency and finally moved forward.</span></div>
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<span title="" class="">I encountered a differrent issue but i think i can tacke this one on my own.</span></div>
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<span title="" class="">So thank you very much!</span></div>
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<div id="divRplyFwdMsg" dir="ltr"><font face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="font-size:11pt" color="#000000"><b>From:</b> dovecot <dovecot-bounces@dovecot.org> on behalf of Andrej Rehak via dovecot <dovecot@dovecot.org><br>
<b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, November 20, 2019 3:40 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> Aki Tuomi <aki.tuomi@open-xchange.com>; dovecot@dovecot.org <dovecot@dovecot.org><br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: Dovecot can't log in Virtual user - please help</font>
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Hello</div>
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Actually im not using PAM at all. So yes its true i could drop that.</div>
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But i see that you have put additional empty double colons in your passwd file which i didn't.</div>
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So maybe this is the issue?</div>
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I will try.</div>
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Thank you</div>
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<div id="x_divRplyFwdMsg" dir="ltr"><font face="Calibri, sans-serif" color="#000000" style="font-size:11pt"><b>From:</b> Aki Tuomi <aki.tuomi@open-xchange.com><br>
<b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, November 19, 2019 10:49 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> Andrej Rehak <andrej.rehak@outlook.com>; dovecot@dovecot.org <dovecot@dovecot.org><br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: Dovecot can't log in Virtual user - please help</font>
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<div class="x_x_moz-cite-prefix">On 19.11.2019 19.21, Andrej Rehak via dovecot wrote:<br>
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Hello</div>
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Im having issues login to dovecot using imap through telnet.</div>
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Im running<span> </span><code style="">Linux 4.9.0-11-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 4.9.189-3+deb9u1 (2019-09-20) x86_64 GNU/Linux</code></p>
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Im totally new to setting up mailservers. I havesetup a postfix for SMTP and it can receive emails. Postfix version is<span> </span><code style="">mail_version = 3.1.12</code></p>
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I have also installed Dovecot version:<code style="">2.2.27 (c0f36b0)</code><span> </span>My configuration is such that POSTFIX is configured to use DOVECOT SASL through local socket.</p>
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My system is configured to store emails in<span> </span><code style="">/var/mail/owndomain.org/<username></code>. For each domain i have my own passwd file where dovecot is supposed to lookup usernames and passwords.<span> </span><code style="">/var/mail/owndomain.org/passwd</code>.</p>
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I have created<span> </span><code style="">virtualuser</code><span> </span>for accessing mails and authenticating users. My dovecot (dovecot -n output) configuration is:</p>
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<span># 2.2.27 (c0f36b0): /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf<br>
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<div># Pigeonhole version 0.4.16 (fed8554)<br>
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<div># OS: Linux 4.9.0-11-amd64 x86_64 Debian 9.11 <br>
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<div>auth_debug = yes<br>
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<div>auth_mechanisms = plain login<br>
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<div>auth_verbose = yes<br>
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<div>debug_log_path = /var/log/dovecot-debug.log<br>
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<div>disable_plaintext_auth = no<br>
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<div>info_log_path = /var/log/dovecot-info.log<br>
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<div>listen = 192.168.2.2<br>
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<div>log_path = /var/log/dovecot.log<br>
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<div>mail_home = /var/mail/home/%d/%n<br>
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<div>mail_location = mbox:~/mail:INBOX=/var/spool/mail/%d/%n<br>
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<div>mail_privileged_group = virtualmail<br>
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<div>namespace inbox {<br>
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<div> inbox = yes<br>
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<div> location = <br>
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<div> mailbox Drafts {<br>
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<div> special_use = \Drafts<br>
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<div> }<br>
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<div> mailbox Junk {<br>
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<div> special_use = \Junk<br>
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<div> }<br>
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<div> mailbox Sent {<br>
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<div> special_use = \Sent<br>
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<div> }<br>
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<div> mailbox "Sent Messages" {<br>
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<div> special_use = \Sent<br>
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<div> }<br>
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<div> mailbox Trash {<br>
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<div> special_use = \Trash<br>
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<div> }<br>
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<div> prefix = <br>
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<div>}<br>
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<div>passdb {<br>
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<div> driver = pam<br>
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<p>Are you using PAM intentionally? You might want to drop this along with userdb with passwd as driver. the passwd-file one is ok. By dropping PAM you probably get quite nice speedup, too.<br>
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<p>But I tested your configuration locally here and it seems to work. At least with following passwd file:</p>
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<p>$ sudo cat /var/mail/owndomain.org/passwd<br>
username:{PLAIN}password:::::<br>
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<p>Aki<br>
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