[Dovecot] Errors after install with non-standard prefix

[Dmitry Samersoff]

Timo,

Thanks a lot it helps.

1.

What is dependency between login directory and dict client?
Are you trying to open unix domain sockets or pipes under login dir? If 
yes - is it possible to force dovecot to open it all under /tmp ?

2.
Generally I would like to run entire dovecot under exim user but dovecot
claims
  Logins with login_user's UID 69 not permitted
despite the fact I set
  first_valid_uid = 1
changing login user to nobody helps.

-Dmitry.

Timo Sirainen wrote:
> On Mon, 2009-02-02 at 14:43 +0300, Dmitry Samersoff wrote:
>> Error: dict: dict client: Broken handshake
> ..
>> base_dir: /zhome/var/run/dovecot
> ..
>> login_dir: /zhome/var/run/dovecot
> 
> These can't be the same! Just don't specify login_dir at all, it'll use
> the default which is under base_dir.
> 
>> login_user: exim
>> login_chroot: no
> ..
>> mail_uid: exim
>> mail_gid: exim
> 
> These look suspicious. Are you going to run entire Dovecot under exim
> user? If not, login_user can't be the same as mail_uid.
> 


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