[Dovecot] allow_nets and local sockets

Timo Sirainen tss at iki.fi
Thu Oct 21 17:58:58 EEST 2010


On Thu, 2010-10-21 at 16:37 +0200, Oliver Eales wrote:

> *virtual_transport = lmtp:unix:private/dovecot-lmtp *

LMTP does a userdb lookup normally.

> *Oct 21 15:48:03 auth: Info: passdb(username): allow_nets check failed: 
> Remote IP not known

So this shouldn't be happening. Are you using userdb static, and Dovecot
is doing a passdb lookup because of it? Could you replace it with userdb
lookup for lmtp-only?

protocol lmtp {
  userdb {
    driver = ldap
    args = dovecot-ldap.conf
  }
}




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