[vPostMaster] Can't authenticate w/ IMAP

[Scott Kleihege]

On Mon, Jun 23, 2008 at 02:35:45PM -0700, Sherman Boyd wrote:
>Thanks Scott.  It's not a client side issue, I get the same problems
>with Thunderbird.  I'm pretty sure my Dovecot install is a little
>broken, the restart script fails, and /etc/init.d/dovecot start and
>stop work, but silently with no output on the terminal.

On Hardy, your dovecot.conf should look something like the following, with
the additional lines for the SSL certificate:

-----------------------------------------------------------
#  vPostMaster Configuration
protocol imap {
}

protocol pop3 {
  pop3_uidl_format = %08Xu%08Xv
}

auth default {
  mechanisms = plain
  passdb sql {
     args = /etc/dovecot/dovecot-vpostmaster.conf
  }
  userdb sql {
     args = /etc/dovecot/dovecot-vpostmaster.conf
  }
  user = root
}

default_mail_env = maildir:~/Maildir/
first_valid_uid = 100
protocols = imap imaps pop3 pop3s
-----------------------------------------------------------

and your dovecot-vpostmaster.conf should be something like the following,
with your system's password instead of "XXXXXXXX":

-----------------------------------------------------------
driver = pgsql
connect = host=localhost dbname=vpostmaster user=imapserver password=XXXXXXXX
default_pass_scheme = CRYPT
password_query = SELECT users.cryptedpasswd AS password FROM users WHERE users.name = '%n' AND users.domainsname = '%d' AND users.active = 't' AND (SELECT active FROM domains WHERE name = '%d') = 't'
user_query = SELECT userdir AS home, 1001 AS uid, 1001 AS gid FROM users WHERE users.name = '%n' AND users.domainsname = '%d' AND users.active = 't' AND (SELECT active FROM domains WHERE name = '%d') = 't'
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