Re: [Dovecot] LMTP userdb lookup

[l...@airstreamcomm.net]

On 10/4/12 9:58 AM, Timo Sirainen wrote:
On 4.10.2012, at 17.41, l...@airstreamcomm.net wrote:
protocol lmtp {
   userdb {
     ..
   }
}
protocol !lmtp {
   userdb {
     ..
   }
}


Forgot to mention I am running 2.0.17.
The above works in v2.1.

And I am getting the following error:

   auth: Fatal: No passdbs specified in configuration file. PLAIN
   mechanism needs one


 From a previous post it appears that Dovecot cannot run without a global 
lookups specified:

   http://www.dovecot.org/list/dovecot/2012-March/064407.html

Per the suggestion in the old post I created an empty passwdfile and included 
it in the auth-passwdfile which seems to have alleviated the issue, however 
this seems like a sub-optimal solution.  Is this still the case, or is there a 
way to tell Dovecot that there is no global lookups?
The !lmtp version avoids that fatal problem. So the solution is: upgrade.
Timo,

I upgraded to 2.1 and configured as recommended, however I am still 
getting an error:

auth: Fatal: No passdbs specified in configuration file. PLAIN mechanism 
needs one

Doveconf -n:

# 2.1.1: /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf
# OS: Linux 2.6.32-279.5.2.el6.x86_64 x86_64 CentOS release 6.3 (Final)
auth_debug = yes
auth_verbose = yes
disable_plaintext_auth = no
mail_debug = yes
mail_fsync = always
mail_location = maildir:~/Maildir
mail_nfs_index = yes
mail_nfs_storage = yes
mbox_write_locks = fcntl
mmap_disable = yes
namespace inbox {
  inbox = yes
  location =
  mailbox Drafts {
    special_use = \Drafts
  }
  mailbox Junk {
    special_use = \Junk
  }
  mailbox Sent {
    special_use = \Sent
  }
  mailbox "Sent Messages" {
    special_use = \Sent
  }
  mailbox Trash {
    special_use = \Trash
  }
  prefix =
}
service imap-login {
  inet_listener imap {
    port = 143
  }
}
service lmtp {
  unix_listener /var/spool/postfix/private/dovecot-lmtp {
    group = postfix
    mode = 0660
    user = postfix
  }
}
service pop3-login {
  inet_listener pop3 {
    port = 110
  }
}
ssl_cert = </etc/pki/dovecot/certs/mail.crt
ssl_key = </etc/pki/dovecot/private/mail.key
protocol !lmtp {
  passdb {
    args = /etc/dovecot/imappop.conf.ext
    driver = sql
  }
  userdb {
    args = /etc/dovecot/imappop.conf.ext
    driver = sql
  }
}
protocol lmtp {
  passdb {
    args = /etc/dovecot/lmtp.conf.ext
    driver = sql
  }
  userdb {
    args = /etc/dovecot/lmtp.conf.ext
    driver = sql
  }
}