dovecot - Mar 2012 - Thanks, was Re: need simpler instructions for user authentication

Thanks to everyone who responded to my request. And I apologize that this
message isn't properly threaded.

I'm in trouble whenever I have to send mail from my gmail account because I
automatically pull it down into the same place from which I send my regular
mail (from benfell at parts-unknown.org ) and I haven't configured that to
deal with the gmail account. That makes it difficult to reply properly to
mail on this list which I have subscribed to with the gmail account so that
I'd actually receive it even when I'm having problems with my main mail
system.

Timo Sirainen <tss at iki.fi> responded that I needed a userdb and offered
that I should probably add the following to dovecot.conf :

userdb {
  driver = passwd
}

As near as I can tell--and it's been over a day now--that solved the
problem.

Thanks!