[Dovecot] Mail not begin proccessed

Timo Sirainen tss at iki.fi
Fri Aug 7 23:13:03 EEST 2009


On Fri, 2009-08-07 at 15:39 +0200, Andre Labuschagne wrote:
> Good day all,
> 
> [Dovecot version 1.2.1]
> I've set up postfix and dovecot on Centos.  I have a problem with the 
> mail, it is begin received but not "processed" by dovecot.  I've looked 
> in the maillog file and found two problems; the first is that 
> private/dovecot directory (I think it should be a directory) did not 
> exist and the second problem is "mail transport unavailable".

private/dovecot is typically dovecot authentication socket for SMTP
AUTH. deliver doesn't need it.

> I've create a directory called /var/spool/postfix/private/dovecot but I 
> get the following error in the log file: Connection refused (Is this an 
> ownership issue? I've made the owner postfix)
> As for the second problem, I've spend the most of the past 3 days 
> googling the error and found very little "useful" information.
> 
> Do I need to supply more info?

Yeah. Postfix configuration, dovecot -n output and exact log messages
what happens when you try to deliver a mail.
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