[Dovecot] Postfix and Dovecot SASL authentication error

[Pascal Volk]

Am 23.08.2008 16:00 schrieb sharad kanekar:
> ear All,
>             I configured Postfix 2.3.3-2 on CentOS 5.2 using SASL Dovecot
> authentication put I am facing the problem to receive mails . My postconf -n
> result is:
> [root at mails ~]# postconf -n
> …
> smtpd_sasl_auth_enable = yes
> smtpd_sasl_path = private/auth
> smtpd_sasl_type = dovecot

Looks good.

> And my /var/log/maillog is:
> Aug 23 19:01:03 mails dovecot: Dovecot v1.0.rc15 starting up
> Aug 23 19:01:55 mails postfix/smtpd[3472]: warning: SASL: Connect to
> private/auth failed: No such file or directory
  ^^^^^^^^^^^^                     ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^


> And our server 's  fetchmail -vvv log is:
> …
Not so interesting while your system is not proper setup yet. ;-)

You have forgot to send the output from `dovecot -n`. But before doing
so, please read http://wiki.dovecot.org/HowTo/PostfixAndDovecotSASL.
Compare your dovecot.conf with the example dovecot.conf excerpt.


Regards,
Pascal