[Dovecot] Connection refused with auth-master after upgrading to Dovecot 1.0 rc 28

[Jason Warner]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Timo Sirainen [mailto:tss at iki.fi]
> Sent: Friday, April 06, 2007 1:43 AM
> To: Jason Warner
> Cc: jasonw at brashers.com; dovecot at dovecot.org
> Subject: Re: [Dovecot] Connection refused with auth-master after upgrading
> to Dovecot 1.0 rc 28
> 
> On 3.4.2007, at 17.38, Jason Warner wrote:
> 
> >> > Fedora pushed out an update to Dovecot 1.0 rc 28 today. After
> >> > upgrading, mail isn't delivered to local recipients. My log file is
> >> > full of error messages similar to the following:
> >> >
> >> > Apr  2 12:56:32 mail deliver(user at domain.com):
> >> > net_connect(/var/run/dovecot/auth-master) failed: Connection
> >> refused
> >>
> >> Delete this file. Restart Dovecot. Does it get recreated?
> >
> > When I delete the file and restart Dovecot it is recreated.
> 
> Does this then happen every time when running deliver? Does netstat
> show that dovecot-auth is listening in that path?

When running deliver from the command line, I do not get the error. The
error only appears when deliver is run from Postfix.

Netstat shows the following when running. 

unix  2      [ ACC ]     STREAM     LISTENING     255526 private/dovecot
unix  2      [ ACC ]     STREAM     LISTENING     1176428
/var/run/dovecot/auth-master
unix  2      [ ACC ]     STREAM     LISTENING     1176411
/var/run/dovecot/login/default
unix  2      [ ACC ]     STREAM     LISTENING     1176416
/var/run/dovecot/auth-worker.27311
unix  2      [ ACC ]     STREAM     LISTENING     1176409
/var/run/dovecot/dict-server
unix  3      [ ]         STREAM     CONNECTED     7888432
/var/run/dovecot/login/default
unix  3      [ ]         STREAM     CONNECTED     7888429 

> 
> Connection refused means either that no-one is listening on the other
> side, or that its listen queue got full.

It appears that the auth-master is running. How would I check to make sure
that it is listening and responding properly to requests?