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...db_home, 501 AS userdb_uid, 501 AS userdb_gid FROM users WHERE login='%n' AND password=old_password('%w')" with dovecot-1.0.15 and it worked perfectly. But since upgrade the server can not authenticate any users, complaining in info_log: "Empty password returned without no_password". How to set up such things in dovecot-1.1? Is it possible? -- Sergey Ivanov.

Hi, We are trying to implement a highly secure mail server with user authentication restricted to SSL certificates only (not using passwords at all). Still, user information is stored in a LDAP directory. In this configuration LDAP is used to check whether the user is registered (and probably supply quota and other info), and actual authentication is done by SSL layer. According to wiki, a

...rameter in smbpasswd. there is a string - :[NU ]: When there is NU, any user can login with any password, with no password and with their smbpasswd password. Then i set instead of :[NU ]: just :[U ], and than everything is working well. But ... A new user is getting line with [NO_PASSWORD...]:[NU ], because only than a user can set his password on unix side with smbpasswd. When a new user gets [NO_PASSWORD...]:[U ], than only ROOT !!! can set smbpasswd for this user. It is not so comfortable to set smbpasswd as root for 2000 users. Any ideas ? -- Have a nice day !...

Hello everyone. I'm switching to dovecot from courier-imap and after some problems with Apple Mail client, now everything seems to be fine. The only problem that I have not solved yet is to check also the service (pop3, pop3s, imap, imaps) in the authentication phase. In courier-authlib I do this: MYSQL_SELECT_CLAUSE SELECT username, \ password, \