[Dovecot] Stuck on an Error: " Connect to private/auth failed: Connection refused"

[Timo Sirainen]

On Mon, 2007-09-10 at 14:07 -0400, Blake Carver wrote:
> Sep 10 12:58:22 lishost postfix/smtpd[13726]: warning: SASL: Connect
> to private/auth failed: Connection refused

That usually means no-one's listening in there. Check with netstat -ln
that something really is.

> The permissions on that file are so:
> srwxr-xr-x 1 postfix postfix 0 Sep  9 14:38 /var/spool/postfix/private/auth
> I've tried changin those but it didn't seem to matter.

If you delete the file and restart Dovecot, does the file get created?

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