Postfix / Dovecot Not Able to Authenticate

dovecot at ptld.com
Mon, 05 Jul 2021 21:11:08 -0000

> On 07-05-2021 4:59 pm, techlists at phpcoderusa.com wrote:
>
> Jul  5 18:58:47 soho dovecot: auth: Debug:
> passwd-file(keith at
keiththewebguy.com,98.191.108.149,<wVJ55GTGvspiv2yV>):
> lookup: user=keith at keiththewebguy.com file=/etc/dovecot/dovecot-users
> Jul  5 18:58:47 soho dovecot: auth:
> passwd-file(keith at
keiththewebguy.com,98.191.108.149,<wVJ55GTGvspiv2yV>):
> unknown user
>

Same thing i said on the postfix mailing list. Start here. It is telling
you that it is not able to find user "keith at keiththewebguy.com" in
the
auth file (/etc/dovecot/dovecot-users). So either you have a typo or the
format of the file is wrong.

The file format is very specific, its is talked about here: