[Dovecot] deliver can't connect to auth server at */usr/local*/var/run/dovecot/auth-master

[Andreas Ntaflos]

Hello list, 

while fiddling around with the configuration so Dovecot's LDA "deliver" can be 
used by multiple users by means of Getmail (you can read about that in [1]) I 
always end up running into the error message posted in the subject line:

Jan 15 00:00:02 HOSTNAME deliver(USERID): Can't connect to auth server 
at /usr/local/var/run/dovecot/auth-master: Permission denied

Notice how it says "/usr/local/var/run/dovecot"! How and why does dovecot 
                    ^^^^^^^^^^
think that anything of any importance can be found under /usr/local/var/... ? 
Please see dovecot -n at the end of this message, but as far as I can tell I 
never ever specified that the /var directory (configure --localstatedir) 
should end up under the prefix /usr/local.

Now I am quite sure that my configuration for auth-master is not yet quite 
correct but I can't go any further without asking what this error message 
could mean and how to resolve the problem.

Anybody have any ideas? I am currently running 1.0.10 (previously, until this 
afternoon 1.0.5, same problem) with the latest MANAGESIEVE patch (v9) applied 
and the dovecot-sieve plugin.

TIA for any hints! I am at a loss here.

Andreas

[1] http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.mail.imap.dovecot/27062

# 1.0.10: /usr/local/etc/dovecot.conf
base_dir: /var/run/dovecot/
protocols: imap imaps pop3 pop3s managesieve
listen(default): *
listen(imap): *
listen(pop3): *
listen(managesieve): *:2000
ssl_cert_file: /etc/ssl/certs/DOMAINNAME.crt
ssl_key_file: /etc/ssl/private/DOMAINNAME.key
login_dir: /var/run/dovecot//login
login_executable(default): /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/imap-login
login_executable(imap): /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/imap-login
login_executable(pop3): /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/pop3-login
login_executable(managesieve): /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/managesieve-login
mail_extra_groups: mail
mail_location: maildir:~/Maildir
maildir_copy_with_hardlinks: yes
mail_executable(default): /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/imap
mail_executable(imap): /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/imap
mail_executable(pop3): /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/pop3
mail_executable(managesieve): /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/managesieve
mail_plugin_dir(default): /usr/local/lib/dovecot/imap
mail_plugin_dir(imap): /usr/local/lib/dovecot/imap
mail_plugin_dir(pop3): /usr/local/lib/dovecot/pop3
mail_plugin_dir(managesieve): /usr/local/lib/dovecot/managesieve
imap_client_workarounds(default): outlook-idle delay-newmail 
tb-extra-mailbox-sep
imap_client_workarounds(imap): outlook-idle delay-newmail tb-extra-mailbox-sep
imap_client_workarounds(pop3): outlook-idle
imap_client_workarounds(managesieve): outlook-idle
pop3_uidl_format(default):
pop3_uidl_format(imap):
pop3_uidl_format(pop3): %08Xu%08Xv
pop3_uidl_format(managesieve):
namespace:
  type: public
  separator: /
  prefix: Public/
  location: 
maildir:/var/mail/public:CONTROL=~/Maildir/control/public:INDEX=~/Maildir/index/public
namespace:
  type: private
  separator: /
  inbox: yes
auth default:
  mechanisms: login plain
  verbose: yes
  passdb:
    driver: pam
  userdb:
    driver: passwd
  socket:
    type: listen
    client:
      path: /var/spool/postfix/private/auth
      mode: 432
      user: postfix
      group: postfix
    master:
      path: /var/run/dovecot/auth-master
      mode: 432
      user: root
      group: dovecot
-- 
Andreas "daff" Ntaflos
Vienna, Austria

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