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

[mouss]

Andreas Ntaflos wrote:
> On Tuesday 15 January 2008 05:24:58 Timo Sirainen wrote:
>> On Tue, 2008-01-15 at 00:21 +0100, Andreas Ntaflos wrote:
>>> Notice how it says "/usr/local/var/run/dovecot"! How and why does dovecot
>> ..
>>
>>>     master:
>>>       path: /var/run/dovecot/auth-master
>> If you're not using the default built-in path, set:
>>
>> protocol lda {
>>   auth_socket_path = /var/run/dovecot/auth-master
>> }
> 
> Thanks for your reply, too!
> 
> So does this mean that auth_socket_path is by default set 
> to /usr/local/var/run/dovecot/auth-master? And I have to set that parameter 
> explicitly to /var/run/dovecot/auth-master?
> 
> I am a little confused. Why are there two places to set the path to the 
> authentication master socket? 

- you need to tell the server where to listen
- you need to tell deliver where to find the socket

the --prefix is probably what added the /usr/local to the default 
/var/run/....



> Do I need to set both? Until yesterday, when I 
> started experimenting, I hadn't even uncommented the "master { ... }" section 
> under "socket listen { ... }", I just used the client so Postfix could do 
> SMTP authentication lookups, as you can see from dovecot -n.
> 
> Andreas
> 
> P.S.: As you could probably tell some messages from this list bounced from my 
> mailserver when I tried to get the configuration right (which I didn't :)). I 
> apologise for that.