Hi Timo 2008/10/22 Timo Sirainen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > That means your authentication changes the username. > >> passdb checkpassword { >> args = /var/qmail/bin/qmail-vauth >> } > > Most likely qmail-vauth changes USER environment to vmail. If you can't > edit qmail-vauth directly, create a wrapper script that unsets the USER > environment before calling Dovecot's checkpassword-reply.
Yes, you're spot on! USER is changed. Thanks for the heads-up, I'll see if writing a wrapper works, without messing with the fact that the process has to run as the vmail user..... Thanks Dale