Timo - Sorry: We forwarded one of the many dovecot.confs
we've been playing with; (that one had auth turned off;)
We're using "sendmail." Here's the auth dovecot.conf;
# 1.0.7: /etc/dovecot.conf
protocols: imaps pop3s
login_dir: /var/run/dovecot/login
login_executable(default): /usr/libexec/dovecot/imap-login
login_executable(imap): /usr/libexec/dovecot/imap-login
login_executable(pop3): /usr/libexec/dovecot/pop3-login
mail_debug: yes
mail_executable(default): /usr/libexec/dovecot/imap
mail_executable(imap): /usr/libexec/dovecot/imap
mail_executable(pop3): /usr/libexec/dovecot/pop3
mail_plugins(default): quota imap_quota
mail_plugins(imap): quota imap_quota
mail_plugins(pop3): quota
mail_plugin_dir(default): /usr/lib/dovecot/imap
mail_plugin_dir(imap): /usr/lib/dovecot/imap
mail_plugin_dir(pop3): /usr/lib/dovecot/pop3
auth default:
mechanisms: plain login
verbose: yes
debug: yes
debug_passwords: yes
passdb:
driver: passwd-file
args: /etc/dovecot/passwd
userdb:
driver: passwd-file
args: /etc/dovecot/users
socket:
type: listen
client:
path: /var/run/dovecot/auth-client
mode: 432
master:
path: /var/run/dovecot/auth-master
mode: 384
plugin:
quota: fs:User quota:user
On Fri, July 17, 2009 12:55 pm, Timo Sirainen wrote:
> On Fri, 2009-07-17 at 12:47 -0400, ma...@essic.umd.edu wrote:
>> auth default:
>> mechanisms: plain login
>> verbose: yes
>> debug: yes
>> debug_passwords: yes
>> passdb:
>> driver: passwd-file
>> args: /etc/dovecot/passwd
>> userdb:
>> driver: passwd-file
>> args: /etc/dovecot/users
>
> OK, so you haven't configured anything except passwd-file and you
> haven't configured any auth sockets either.
>
>> > > Folks - With Dovecot 1.0.7, we're seemingly unable to
>> > > authenticate users for out-going SMTP access who are
>> > > not residing directly within the main system passwd/shadow
>> > > files.
>
> Which means you haven't configured your MTA to authenticate using
> Dovecot!
>
> You didn't mention what MTA you're using.. If you're using Postfix or
> Exim, see http://wiki.dovecot.org/HowTo/PostfixAndDovecotSASL or
> http://wiki.dovecot.org/HowTo/EximAndDovecotSASL
>
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Mark R. Baith
University of Maryland (UMD)
Earth System Science Interdisciplinary Center (ESSIC)
mba...@essic.umd.edu / P:(301)314.2629 / F:(301)405.8648
