[Dovecot] odd behavior with Dovecot LDA

[Steven F Siirila]

On Wed, Mar 28, 2007 at 10:39:45PM +0300, Timo Sirainen wrote:
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> >>You could also try running it manually:
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> >>echo hello | deliver -d username
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> >Doing so yields this error:
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> >Mar 28 13:41:37 myhostname deliver(myuser): net_connect(/var/opt/ 
> >dovecot/run/dovecot/auth-master) failed: No such file or directory
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> >Not sure how my environment is different than when Postfix calls  
> >deliver...
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> Is the deliver binary the same? What is the correct socket path?  
> Maybe they're using different config files.

There is only one deliver binary on the host in question.

Here's our current dovecot -n output for the host in question:

# /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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