On Fri, 2009-07-17 at 12:47 -0400, [email protected] 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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