no user in db

[Norman Zhang]

Forrest Aldrich wrote:
> One of the problems I've run into is "no user in db" in the logs
> from imap/imaps - yet, I'm able to authenticate, send/receive mail,
> create folders (but cannot delete folders).

By default Cyrus Admin cannot delete folders. You need to ACL.

# sam user.jdoe root -all

> So I think something's wrong on the SASL end.

Check that the following path is set corretly in /etc/postfix/main.cf

smtpd_sasl_path = /etc/postfix/sasl:/usr/lib/sasl2

First looks for smtpd.conf, 2nd looks for sasl.db.

> I have (this is on a spare machine):
> 
>    forrie at pc.mydomain.com:   userPassword
>    forrie at mydomain.com:   userPassword
>    forrie.admin at pc.mydomain.com:   userPassword (used only for Cyrus admin)
> 
> /usr/local/lib/sasl2/smtpd.conf:

Did you compiled postfix yourself? See above.

Norman Zhang
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