[Dovecot] Random LDA failure to access auth socket
Chris Richards
gizmo at giz-works.com
Sun Mar 10 20:34:12 EET 2013
I was finally able to make this change. It doesn't appear to have broken
anything, which is a plus. ;)
I'll ping back in a couple of days or so and let you know if the issue
appears resolved.
Thanks again for your help!
Chris
On Sun, March 3, 2013 6:31 pm, Chris Richards wrote:
>
>> In order for dovecot-lda to work, default internal user "dovecot"
>> seems to need permission for the user listing. This should work,
>> but you should try to narrow the permissions down:
>>
>> service auth {
>> unix_listener auth-userdb {
>> group = dovecot
>> mode = 0666
>> user = dovecot
>> }
>> }
>
> I'll give this a whirl tomorrow during off-mail time. I'm thinking there
> was a reason I did vmail:users, but it's not coming to me at the moment.
>
> I'm also puzzled by why lda is using dovecot:dovecot rather than
> vmail:users. Does it drop back to dovecot:dovecot and retry if the
> requested uid:gid fails to work? I can't imagine where postfix would get
> uid:gid of dovecot:dovecot to call with, so I don't think it's a postfix
> problem.
>
> Thanks for your help!
>
> Chris
>
>
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