On 08/15/2013 07:13 AM, LuKreme wrote: > I have dovecot setup and authenticating away for local users, but > when I try to add MySQL users from postfix admin, not only does that > fail, but all authentication fails. > <snip> > and I get the following errors for *ALL* attempts to connect, not > just sql ones: <snip> > mail dovecot: auth: Fatal: mysql: Missing value in connect string: > password-dovecot mail dovecot: master: Error: service(auth): command > startup failed, throttling for 60 secs <snip> > > The dovecot-sql.conf.ext file is: $ cat > /etc/dovecot/dovecot-sql.conf.ext driver = mysql connect = > host=localhost dbname=postfix user=dovecot password-dovecot
I see a typo there, and the error message is referring to it. Maybe try password=dovecot? The reason that all authentications fail (also the non sql ones), is because the auth process (that handles all authentications) dies because of the typo. Tom
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