[Dovecot] unable to connect to auth server

[Steven F Siirila]

Upon rebooting our Dovecot server, I got these:

Mar 16 09:49:16 peridot.tc.umn.edu dovecot: [ID 195972 local6.info] Dovecot v1.0.rc27 starting up
Mar 16 09:49:18 myhost.mydomain dovecot: imap-login: Can't connect to auth server at default: Connection refused
Mar 16 09:49:18 myhost.mydomain last message repeated 1 time
Mar 16 09:49:18 myhost.mydomain dovecot: pop3-login: Can't connect to auth server at default: Connection refused
Mar 16 09:49:18 myhost.mydomain dovecot: imap-login: Can't connect to auth server at default: Connection refused
Mar 16 09:49:18 myhost.mydomain last message repeated 2 times
Mar 16 09:49:18 myhost.mydomain dovecot: pop3-login: Can't connect to auth server at default: Connection refused
Mar 16 09:49:18 myhost.mydomain last message repeated 2 times
Mar 16 09:49:18 myhost.mydomain dovecot: imap-login: Can't connect to auth server at default: Connection refused
Mar 16 09:49:18 myhost.mydomain last message repeated 1 time
Mar 16 09:49:18 myhost.mydomain dovecot: pop3-login: Can't connect to auth server at default: Connection refused
Mar 16 09:49:18 myhost.mydomain dovecot: imap-login: Can't connect to auth server at default: Connection refused

However, everything does work okay.  I believe we ran into this once before
and reported it and I had thought Timo fixed it.  It seems that imap-login
and pop3-login attempt to connect to the auth server before it is fully
operational.  I don't recall what the fix was supposed to change, but it
doesn't seem to have fully fixed it.

(We are running RC27 on Solaris 10)

# /opt/dovecot/sbin/dovecot -n
# /etc/opt/dovecot/dovecot.conf
syslog_facility: local6
protocols: imap imaps pop3 pop3s
listen(default): *:143
listen(imap): *:143
listen(pop3): *:110
ssl_listen(default): *:993
ssl_listen(imap): *:993
ssl_listen(pop3): *:995
ssl_cert_file: /etc/opt/openssl/certs/dovecot.pem
ssl_key_file: /etc/opt/openssl/private/dovecot.pem
shutdown_clients: no
login_dir: /var/opt/dovecot/run/dovecot/login
login_executable(default): /opt/dovecot/libexec/dovecot/imap-login
login_executable(imap): /opt/dovecot/libexec/dovecot/imap-login
login_executable(pop3): /opt/dovecot/libexec/dovecot/pop3-login
login_processes_count: 32
login_max_processes_count: 4096
max_mail_processes: 8192
first_valid_uid: 100
default_mail_env: mbox:~/:INBOX=/var/mail/%u
mail_location: mbox:~/:INBOX=/var/mail/%u
mail_full_filesystem_access: yes
mbox_lazy_writes: no
mail_executable(default): /opt/dovecot/libexec/dovecot/imap
mail_executable(imap): /opt/dovecot/libexec/dovecot/imap
mail_executable(pop3): /opt/dovecot/libexec/dovecot/pop3
mail_plugin_dir(default): /opt/dovecot/lib/dovecot/imap
mail_plugin_dir(imap): /opt/dovecot/lib/dovecot/imap
mail_plugin_dir(pop3): /opt/dovecot/lib/dovecot/pop3
imap_client_workarounds(default): delay-newmail outlook-idle
tb-extra-mailbox-sep
imap_client_workarounds(imap): delay-newmail outlook-idle tb-extra-mailbox-sep
imap_client_workarounds(pop3): outlook-idle
pop3_uidl_format(default):
pop3_uidl_format(imap):
pop3_uidl_format(pop3): %08Xu%08Xv
namespace:
  type: private
  separator: /
  location: mbox:~/:INBOX=/var/mail/%u
  inbox: yes
  hidden: yes
auth default:
  username_format: %Lu
  verbose: yes
  debug: yes
  passdb:
    driver: pam
    args: session=yes *
  userdb:
    driver: passwd

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