You were right... I changed the %n to %Lu in the passdb file scheme and everything is working now :-)
thx a lot On Sun, 2009-02-22 at 13:42 +0100, Andrzej Adam Filip wrote: > ben <mail...@gigaspeeds.be> wrote: > > > tried %Lu, dovecot seems to still strip of the domain part before > > looking it up in dovecot.passwd... : > > > > > > dovecot.passwd : > > --------------- > > t...@testdomain.com:{plain}test123.:8:12::/opt/storage/mbox/bb107608:: > > > > ----- > > dovecot -n > > > > # OS: Linux 2.6.24.5-smp i686 Slackware 12.1.0 > > [...] > > auth default: > > mechanisms: plain login apop > > executable: /opt/dovecot/libexec/dovecot/dovecot-auth > > user: mail > > username_format: %Lu > > verbose: yes > > debug: yes > > debug_passwords: yes > > passdb: > > driver: passwd-file > > args: scheme=plain username_format=%n /opt/dovecot/etc/dovecot.passwd > > userdb: > > driver: passwd-file > > args: username_format=%n /opt/dovecot/etc/dovecot.passwd > > socket: > > type: listen > > master: > > path: /var/run/dovecot/auth-master > > mode: 384 > > user: mail > > group: mail > >[...] > > Have you tried to change username_format for passdb and userdb *TOO*? > You seem to overwrite "global default" in "sub sections". > They both are set to %n - username with stripped domain. > > URL(s): > http://wiki.dovecot.org/AuthDatabase/PasswdFile > > P.S. > My experience with dovecot is limited so treat my replies as guesses > based of "general email experience". >