Hi,<br><br> I have compiled dovecot 1.0 and postfix 2.3 with dovecot support.<br><br>here are my config sections<br><br>dovecot in auth default section<br>----------<br> client {<br> user = postfix<br> group = postfix<br> /path = /var/run/dovecot/auth-client<br> mode = 0660<br> }<br><br>postfix main.cf<br>---------------------<br>smtpd_sasl_auth_enable = yes<br>broken_sasl_auth_clients = yes<br>smtpd_sender_restrictions = permit_sasl_authenticated,<br> check_sender_access hash:/etc/postfix/sender_access<br>smtpd_recipient_restrictions =permit_sasl_authenticated,<br> reject_unknown_recipient_domain,<br>
reject_invalid_hostname,<br> reject_non_fqdn_recipient,<br> # reject_non_fqdn_hostname,<br> reject_non_fqdn_sender,<br> reject_non_fqdn_recipient,<br> reject_unknown_sender_domain,<br> permit_mynetworks,<br> reject_unauth_destination,<br><br>smtpd_sasl_type = dovecot<br>smtpd_sasl_path = /var/run/dovecot/auth-client<br><br>in postfix logs i get <br><br>Jul 29 16:36:22 localhost postfix/smtpd[1437]: warning: SASL: Connect to /var/run/dovecot/auth-client failed: Permission denied<br>Jul 29 16:36:22 localhost postfix/smtpd[1437]:
fatal: no SASL authentication mechanisms<br>Jul 29 16:36:23 localhost postfix/master[1426]: warning: process /usr/libexec/postfix/smtpd pid 1437 exit status 1<br>Jul 29 16:36:23 localhost postfix/master[1426]: warning: /usr/libexec/postfix/smtpd: bad command startup -- throttling<br><br>basically socket file is not created by dovecot<br><br>-sh-2.05b# ls /var/run/dovecot/auth-client<br>ls: /var/run/dovecot/auth-client: No such file or directory<br><br>not sure why<br><span style="font-weight: bold;"><br></span>Regards,<br>-Manish<span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><br></span></span></span><br></span><br><p> 
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