I upgraded my dovecot installation from something <<1.0 to 0.99.14 today. I wasn't exactly planning to but it just came along for the ride when I upgraded the rest of my system.

I was using postgresql for the authentication.

Nothing works.

the debug logs show that I'm able to make a connection to the database table well enough: auth(default): pgsql: Connected to dbmail (that's my database name)

When I attempt to login I get (briefly) password mismatch. I haven't changed the password in well over a year.

My old configuration file for dovecot.conf went to the tune of: login = imap auth_mechanisms = plain auth_passdb = pgsql:/etc/dovecot/dovecot-pgsql.conf auth_user = root (probably not the best, but it worked)

I now have a config file something like this: dovecot-pgsql.conf -- added the 'driver = pgsql' statement. Because it's able to connect to the database I don't think this is much of a problem here.

dovecot.conf (these are all the non-empty lines, except for some logging stuff)

protocols = imap disable_plaintext_auth = no protocol imap { } protocol pop3 { } auth_verbose = yes auth_debug = yes auth default { mechanisms = plain passdb pam { } passdb sql { args = /etc/dovecot/dovecot-pgsql.conf } userdb passwd { } user = root }

It's fairly obvious that there has been a lot of work done on getting more authentication mechanisms in place for dovecot. That's great, and some day I want to play with it, but this is not the day for it.

help.... help.... oh help!