On 4.10.2012, at 17.41, l...@airstreamcomm.net wrote:
>> protocol lmtp {
>> userdb {
>> ..
>> }
>> }
>> protocol !lmtp {
>> userdb {
>> ..
>> }
>> }
>>
>>
> Forgot to mention I am running 2.0.17.
The above works in v2.1.
> And I am getting the following error:
>
> auth: Fatal: No passdbs specified in configuration file. PLAIN
> mechanism needs one
>
>
> From a previous post it appears that Dovecot cannot run without a global
> lookups specified:
>
> http://www.dovecot.org/list/dovecot/2012-March/064407.html
>
> Per the suggestion in the old post I created an empty passwdfile and included
> it in the auth-passwdfile which seems to have alleviated the issue, however
> this seems like a sub-optimal solution. Is this still the case, or is there
> a way to tell Dovecot that there is no global lookups?
The !lmtp version avoids that fatal problem. So the solution is: upgrade.
