On Thu, 2009-02-12 at 15:26 +0200, Henry wrote:
> /etc/dovecot.passwd contains:
> realnamea_abc:{PLAIN-MD5}$1$Vjkfhaa....::::::[email protected]
> 
> I've been fiddling around blindly with all kinds of settings in userdb {} 
> above, but I always get the error:
> "passwd-file([email protected],::ffff:127.0.0.1): unknown user", amongst others.
> 
> In a nutshell, I want to allow a user to login with [email protected], this name 
> must be mapped to a real system user (eg, using /etc/dovecot.passwd), then 
> authenticated against /etc/shadow or the MD5 password in /etc/dovecot.passwd

Then you're doing it the wrong way. Should be:

[email protected]:....:user=realnamea_abc

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