[Dovecot] Problem of using dovecot as sasl implement for postfix
sosogh
sosogh at 126.com
Mon May 26 09:41:50 EEST 2008
Hi list
I install postfix dovecot on my debian etch box
I install them via apt-get
I want to use dovecot to be postfix sasl implement,but i got the following error message
in the mail log:
Apr 27 21:28:39 sosogh postfix/smtpd[19776]: warning: SASL: Connect to private/auth failed: No such file or directory
Apr 27 21:28:39 sosogh postfix/smtpd[19776]: fatal: no SASL authentication mechanisms
Apr 27 21:28:40 sosogh postfix/master[19765]: warning: process /usr/lib/postfix/smtpd pid 19776 exit status 1
my configuration:
postfix:
Mail:/etc/dovecot# more /etc/postfix/main.cf
smtpd_sasl_auth_enable = yes
broken_sasl_auth_clients = yes
smtpd_sasl_security_options = noanonymous
smtpd_sasl_type = dovecot
smtpd_sasl_path = private/auth
Mail:/etc/dovecot# postconf | grep mail_version
mail_version = 2.3.8
Mail:/etc/dovecot# postconf | grep -i mail_owner
mail_owner = postfix
Mail:/etc/dovecot# ls -al /var/spool/postfix/private/
total 8
drwx------ 2 postfix root 4096 2008-04-27 22:11 .
drwxr-xr-x 19 root root 4096 2008-01-20 23:12 ..
srw-rw-rw- 1 postfix postfix 0 2008-04-27 22:11 anvil
srw-rw-rw- 1 postfix postfix 0 2008-04-27 22:11 bounce
srw-rw-rw- 1 postfix postfix 0 2008-04-27 22:11 bsmtp
srw-rw-rw- 1 postfix postfix 0 2008-04-27 22:11 defer
srw-rw-rw- 1 postfix postfix 0 2008-04-27 22:11 discard
srw-rw-rw- 1 postfix postfix 0 2008-04-27 22:11 dspam
srw-rw-rw- 1 postfix postfix 0 2008-04-27 22:11 error
srw-rw-rw- 1 postfix postfix 0 2008-04-27 22:11 ifmail
srw-rw-rw- 1 postfix postfix 0 2008-04-27 22:11 lmtp
srw-rw-rw- 1 postfix postfix 0 2008-04-27 22:11 local
srw-rw-rw- 1 postfix postfix 0 2008-04-27 22:11 maildrop
srw-rw-rw- 1 postfix postfix 0 2008-04-27 22:11 mailman
srw-rw-rw- 1 postfix postfix 0 2008-04-27 22:11 policy
srw-rw-rw- 1 postfix postfix 0 2008-04-27 22:11 proxymap
srw-rw-rw- 1 postfix postfix 0 2008-04-27 22:11 relay
srw-rw-rw- 1 postfix postfix 0 2008-04-27 22:11 rewrite
srw-rw-rw- 1 postfix postfix 0 2008-04-27 22:11 scache
srw-rw-rw- 1 postfix postfix 0 2008-04-27 22:11 scalemail-backend
srw-rw-rw- 1 postfix postfix 0 2008-04-27 22:11 smtp
srw-rw-rw- 1 postfix postfix 0 2008-04-27 22:11 tlsmgr
srw-rw-rw- 1 postfix postfix 0 2008-04-27 22:11 trace
srw-rw-rw- 1 postfix postfix 0 2008-04-27 22:11 uucp
srw-rw-rw- 1 postfix postfix 0 2008-04-27 22:11 verify
srw-rw-rw- 1 postfix postfix 0 2008-04-27 22:11 virtual
dovecot:
Mail:/etc/dovecot# dovecot --version
1.0.rc15
Mail:/etc/dovecot# dovecot -n
# /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf
log_path: /var/log/dovecot.log
protocols: imap imaps pop3 pop3s
disable_plaintext_auth: no
login_dir: /var/run/dovecot/login
login_executable(default): /usr/lib/dovecot/imap-login
login_executable(imap): /usr/lib/dovecot/imap-login
login_executable(pop3): /usr/lib/dovecot/pop3-login
mail_executable(default): /usr/lib/dovecot/imap
mail_executable(imap): /usr/lib/dovecot/imap
mail_executable(pop3): /usr/lib/dovecot/pop3
mail_plugin_dir(default): /usr/lib/dovecot/modules/imap
mail_plugin_dir(imap): /usr/lib/dovecot/modules/imap
mail_plugin_dir(pop3): /usr/lib/dovecot/modules/pop3
auth default:
mechanisms: plain login
verbose: yes
debug: yes
passdb:
driver: sql
args: /etc/dovecot/dovecot-sql.conf
socket:
type: listen
client:
path: /var/spool/postfix/private/auth
mode: 432
user: postfix
group: postfix
master:
Mail:/etc/dovecot# more dovecot.conf
protocols = imap imaps pop3 pop3s
auth_debug = yes
auth_verbose = yes
log_path = /var/log/dovecot.log
disable_plaintext_auth = no
auth default {
mechanisms = plain login
user = postfix
passdb sql {
args = /etc/dovecot/dovecot-sql.conf
}
user = root
socket listen {
client {
path = /var/spool/postfix/private/auth
mode = 0660
user = postfix
group = postfix
}
}
}
I wonder why private/auth does not exsit
THANK YOU!
BEST RGDS!
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sosogh at 126.com
2008-05-26
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