dovecot - Feb 2004 - More than one auth method with dovevot 0.99.10.4 - how?

We're setting up a server with qmail/vpopmail and dovecot.  In
addition to vpopmail users we want non-virtual, local users to be able
to authenticate and have them read the Maildir in their real $HOME.

vpopmail userdb/passwd works fine.  Now how do I tell dovecot to use
passwd (or PAM) userdb/passdb authentication too?

/etc/dovecot.conf:

[...]

auth = default
auth_mechanisms = plain
auth_userdb = vpopmail
auth_passdb = vpopmail
auth_user = root
auth_verbose = yes


auth = local
auth_mechanisms = plain
auth_userdb = passwd /etc/passwd
auth_passdb = pam
auth_user = root
auth_verbose = yes

#auth_methods = default local

EOF

I think, I'm supposed to put the auth_methods line somewhere.

Without it, dovecot only tries authentication using the first auth
process definition:

| Feb 25 00:01:49 server1 dovecot-auth: vpopmail(rscholz): unknown user
(rscholz@)

after loggin in with 

". login rscholz secret_password" at the IMAP server.

Putting the auth_methods line behind the two auth processes (or
somewhere in the middle) gives me:

| Starting mail server: dovecotFatal: Error in configuration file
/etc/dovecot.conf line 456: Unknown setting: methods

Putting it above all auth processes gives me:

| Starting mail server: dovecotFatal: Error in configuration file
/etc/dovecot.conf line 362: Authentication process name not defined yet

Hm, I'm lost here.

System is Debian i386 stable (woody) with dovecot_0.99.10.4-2.deb
backported from Debian unstable.

Cheers, Ray
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On Wed, 2004-02-25 at 01:13, Raymond Scholz wrote:
> We're setting up a server with qmail/vpopmail and dovecot.  In
> addition to vpopmail users we want non-virtual, local users to be able
> to authenticate and have them read the Maildir in their real $HOME.
This isn't possible in the released version yet, but it's in next
version. If you really wanted, you could use all but "imap" binary
from
Dovecot's CVS and it'd work.

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? Timo Sirainen <tss at iki.fi> wrote:
> This isn't possible in the released version yet, but it's in next
> version. If you really wanted, you could use all but "imap"
binary from
> Dovecot's CVS and it'd work.
I really wanted... Thanks, works like a charm.

Cheers, Ray
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