[Dovecot] LDA Connection Refused with auth-userdb

[Adam Ramirez]

Yes, dovecot and postfix are both restarted on each change I make to the
config files.


On Fri, Jun 21, 2013 at 1:40 PM, Luca Fornasari <luca.fornasari at gmail.com>wrote:

> On Fri, Jun 21, 2013 at 12:54 PM, Adam Ramirez <smadam9 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > ---> dovecot: lda: Error: userdb lookup:
> > connect(/var/run/dovecot/auth-userdb) failed: Connection refused
> >
>
> [...]
>
>
> >   unix_listener auth-userdb {
> >     group = vmail
> >     mode = 0644
> >     user = vmail
> >   }
> >
> > File permissions on auth-userdb
> > -----------------------------------------
> > srw-r--r-- 1 vmail vmail 0 Jun 20 13:04 /var/run/dovecot/auth-userdb
> >
>
> [...]
>   # The default 0666 mode allows anyone to connect to the socket, but the
>   # userdb lookups will succeed only if the userdb returns an "uid" field
> that
>   # matches the caller process's UID. Also if caller's uid or gid matches
> the
>   # socket's uid or gid the lookup succeeds. Anything else causes a
> failure.
>
>
>
> > I have tried changing the permissions and owner of auth-userdb to 777 and
> > dovecot:dovecot, but there wasn't a change.
> >
>
>  This sounds strange; did you restart dovecot and Postfix?
>
> Cheers,
> Luca
>