[Dovecot] doveadm not working

Timo Sirainen tss at iki.fi
Mon May 14 18:37:08 EEST 2012


On Sun, 2012-05-13 at 13:21 +0200, Christian Rößner wrote:
> May 13 13:03:20 mx0 dovecot: auth: Error: auth worker: Aborted request: Lookup timed out
> May 13 13:03:21 mx0 dovecot: auth-worker(26753): Error: LDAP: ldap_start_tls_s() failed: Connect error
> May 13 13:03:21 mx0 dovecot: auth-worker(26753): Error: LDAP: ldap_start_tls_s() failed: Can't contact LDAP server
> 
> Dovecot itself works. Only doveadm does not.

User iteration is done via auth-worker process, because it can take a
long time. Regular passdb/userdb lookups are done via auth process,
because they are fast. So:

> service auth-worker {
>   unix_listener auth-worker {
>     user = vmail
>   }
>   user = vmail
> }
> service auth {
>   extra_groups = ssl-cert
>   unix_listener auth-userdb {
>     mode = 0600
>     user = vmail
>   }
>   user = vmail
> }

I guess you need to add extra_groups=ssl-cert to auth-worker as well.



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