[Dovecot] need help with dovecot-lda

[Andreas Meyer]

Ben Morrow <ben at morrow.me.uk> wrote:

> That's not where dovecot-lda is looking, at least not according to the
> log above. Is the vmail user able to read dovecot.conf? Do you have more
> than one dovecot.conf, with different settings in? I would ask you to
> run
> 
>     doveconf -m lda base_dir auth_socket_path
> 
> as the vmail user, but I'm not convinced you know how.

I managed to su to vmail by giving it a shell.

# su - vmail
vmail at delta:~> doveconf -m lda base_dir auth_socket_path
base_dir = /usr/var/run/dovecot
auth_socket_path = auth-userdb

But I don't know how to tell dovecot-lda to listen on sockets
in /usr/var/run/dovecot

> 
> Ben
> 

Andreas