[Dovecot] need help with dovecot-lda

[Ben Morrow]

At  3PM +0100 on 15/12/12 you (Andreas Meyer) wrote:
> 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

Do you mean 'connect to'? It's important to be clear.

The first thing is to see what actually happens when you invoke
dovecot-lda as vmail. Remember to check the logs as well as the
mailboxes.

Ben