I have been using system users (/etc/passwd).  I recently started
using, in addition, passwd-file with a separate dovecot password
database so that I could have user@domainname users with a different
password as their shell login password.

This means I have dovecot authenticating on users in both /etc/passwd
and /etc/dovecot/users.

If I have a user in /etc/passwd, for example 'joe' and a user in
/etc/dovecot/users, j...@example.org, and both of these users are in
fact the same user but different password.  They use the same inbox
and the same mail files.  Dovecot does not seem to like this very
much.  I am seeing many errors like this:

Error: Mailbox INBOX: Sync failed for mbox: UID inserted in the middle of 
mailbox (4315358 > 4312144, seq=1, idx_msgs=3212)

I think I'm causing this by having 2 users that are in fact the same
user and dovecot is stepping on itself.

Is it possible to tell Dovecot that these 2 users are in fact the
same, as in like an alias user?  Or is it possible to tell dovecot not
to process mail for say for 'joe' the system user?

Michael Grant

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