On Sat, Nov 03, 2007 at 12:15:31PM +0200, Timo Sirainen wrote: > The problem is most likely that login process is running chrooted. > login_chroot=no would help.
It does - thanks a lot, I had been struggling for hours! > Another way would be to do this in dovecot-auth, but if it's done > there it should be done asynchronously (or in auth worker processes) > and doing async dns lookups would require some async dns library.. Now, I think I understand why you had not done something like this already. * Copying some files into the chroot may be one way... * When you say auth-worker processes, do you mean I need to create a separate helper program just to do DNS lookups? Let me try... :-) There is one more thing I need to do - create a config variable/file which contains the list of 'host' values which refer to the local system - then we will be set. -Abhijit
