[Dovecot] Problem with multiple Dovecot Instances

[Manuel Maurer]

Thanks a lot for your Help. I set up now every dovecot instance with 
it's own auth-server while
waiting for v2.0 :-)

Manuel

Timo Sirainen wrote:
> On Fri, 2008-08-22 at 04:14 +0200, Manuel Maurer wrote:
>   
>> On Fri, 22 Aug 2008 04:50:40 +0300, Timo Sirainen <tss at iki.fi> wrote:
>>     
>>> On Fri, 2008-08-22 at 03:45 +0200, Manuel Maurer wrote:
>>>
>>>       
>>>> The folder /var/run/dovecot_main was created at startup, just the
>>>> login directory not, why?
>>>>         
>>> Because you were using external authentication.
>>>       
>> But why do the logfiles say this directory is missing? As far as i
>> understood the Login-Process, every imap-login and pop3-login process
>> is chrooted inside the login folder until the user is authentificated.
>> In this case it would be necessary to have this folder. When i create
>> it by hand it is missing the authentification socket. Is this the 
>> socket "default", normally located inside the login folder? If so,
>> why is this also not created?
>>     
>
> The directory isn't created if external authentication is used. I guess
> the reason for this was that in such a case Dovecot can't really know
> what the correct directory permissions would be. I guess it could still
> create the directory if completely missing, but .. well, no-one uses
> external auth. :)
>
>   
>>>> At the moment i got it up and running by using an own auth-process
>>>> for every dovecot instance. But i would prefer authentification via
>>>> one single process.
>>>>         
>>> I didn't notice this in your previous settings. Unfortunately it doesn't
>>> work like that currently, because Dovecots get confused as to who owns
>>> which auth connection.
>>>       
>> Sorry, i misspresented this. I am not using this configuration when i try
>> to
>> set up the single auth-process. Just recognized that it is also possible to
>> run dovecot in that way. But that's not what i want. The configuration i
>> posted the very first time is that what i use (now with chroot and
>> login_dir
>> set to default).
>> If i absolutely do not get it running with single auth, i would use
>> an auth-server for every dovecot instance.
>>     
>
> Currently there's no way to share the auth server. I'm not actually sure
> if it's ever going to work, but hopefully with v2.0 you don't have to
> run multiple instances because it'll be so much more configurable.
>