Hi, Been wrestling with this for a couple of weekends now to no avail. Google searches have provided incomplete information for me to solve this. I want to be able to receive and retrieve mail from system users using mbox format with pam for authentication and virtual users using maildir format with mysql authentication. This system was working correctly for system users prior to the addition of virtual users. I followed the http://workaround.org/articles/ispmail-etch/#abstract to set up the postfix, dovecot with mysql authentication. It does not really cover using two different authentication methods though. Pop or imap access does not matter to me if I can only get it to work with one method.
The error the way it is currently set up is that the users mailbox will not update (new mail will not display-the old mail in that mailbox is readable). Logging in and out makes no difference either. The folders in ~/Mail/ that contain the subscribed folders work perfectly. Output of dovecot -n: # 1.0.15: /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf log_timestamp: %Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S protocols: imap imaps pop3 pop3s disable_plaintext_auth: no login_dir: /var/run/dovecot/login login_executable(default): /usr/lib/dovecot/imap-login login_executable(imap): /usr/lib/dovecot/imap-login login_executable(pop3): /usr/lib/dovecot/pop3-login mail_privileged_group: mail mail_location: maildir:/home/vmail/%d/%n/Maildir mail_debug: yes mail_executable(default): /usr/lib/dovecot/imap mail_executable(imap): /usr/lib/dovecot/imap mail_executable(pop3): /usr/lib/dovecot/pop3 mail_plugin_dir(default): /usr/lib/dovecot/modules/imap mail_plugin_dir(imap): /usr/lib/dovecot/modules/imap mail_plugin_dir(pop3): /usr/lib/dovecot/modules/pop3 pop3_uidl_format(default): pop3_uidl_format(imap): pop3_uidl_format(pop3): %08Xu%08Xv namespace: type: private separator: / inbox: yes namespace: type: private separator: / location: mbox:/home/%u/Mail:INBOX=/var/mail/%u:INDEX=/home/%u/indexes auth default: mechanisms: plain login username_format: %u verbose: yes debug: yes debug_passwords: yes passdb: driver: pam args: dovecot passdb: driver: sql args: /etc/dovecot/dovecot-sql.conf userdb: driver: passwd args: home=/var/mail/%u mail=mbox:~/Mail userdb: driver: static args: uid=5000 gid=5000 home=/home/vmail/%d/%n allow_all_users=yes socket: type: listen client: path: /var/spool/postfix/private/auth mode: 432 user: postfix group: postfix master: path: /var/run/dovecot/auth-master mode: 384 user: vmail System is Debian Testing on Athlon XP 2600+, postfix 2.5.5, dovecot 1.0.15, mysql 5.0.51 Thanks for any and all help, Jim -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]