> On 4 Sep 2019, at 19.32, R.N.S. via dovecot <dovecot@dovecot.org> wrote:
>
>
> So now all passdbs are inside protocol.
Which is not what I said.
>
> Errors:
>
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------
> Sep 4 18:25:19 mx dovecot: auth: Fatal: No passdbs specified in
> configuration file. LOGIN mechanism needs one
> Sep 4 18:25:19 mx dovecot: master: Error: service(auth): command startup
> failed, throttling for 2 secs
> Sep 4 18:25:19 mx dovecot: submission-login: Disconnected: Auth process
> broken (disconnected before auth was ready, waited 0
> secs): user=<>, rip=134.255.226.247, lip=134.255.226.248
> Sep 4 18:25:21 mx dovecot: auth: Fatal: No passdbs specified in
> configuration file. LOGIN mechanism needs one
> Sep 4 18:25:21 mx dovecot: master: Error: service(auth): command startup
> failed, throttling for 4 secs
> Sep 4 18:25:21 mx dovecot: imap-login: Disconnected: Auth process broken
> (disconnected before auth was ready, waited 1 secs)
> : user=<>, rip=134.255.226.247, lip=134.255.226.248
> Sep 4 18:25:24 mx dovecot: managesieve-login: Disconnected (disconnected
> before auth was ready, waited 0 secs): user=<>, rip
> =134.255.226.247, lip=134.255.226.248
> Sep 4 18:25:25 mx dovecot: auth: Fatal: No passdbs specified in
> configuration file. LOGIN mechanism needs one
> Sep 4 18:25:25 mx dovecot: master: Error: service(auth): command startup
> failed, throttling for 8 secs
> Sep 4 18:25:25 mx dovecot: pop3-login: Disconnected: Auth process broken
> (disconnected before auth was ready, waited 3 secs)
> : user=<>, rip=134.255.226.247, lip=134.255.226.248
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> So it looks to me something is missing for the "auth" service. Do you have
> any ideas?
>
Because it was only in "order of things". You must have a global passdb {}.
Your problem was that protocol specific passdb:s need to be
*before* the global passdb.
Sami
