Connect failed to database

[Steffen Kaiser]

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On Mon, 2 Mar 2015, Oliver Welter wrote:
> Am 02.03.2015 um 06:03 schrieb Dan LaSota:
>> I have dovecot version 2.2.10
>> dovecot -n output below
>> 
>> I am seeing connection errors being written to my dovecot error log:
>> Mar  1 19:51:15 mail dovecot: auth-worker(2224): Error: mysql(localhost): 
>> Connect failed to database (servermail): Access denied for user 
>> 'usermail'@'localhost' (using password: YES) - waiting for 5 seconds before 
>> retry
>> 
>
> Just some quick ideas
> * check if the mysql socket file has rw permissions for the dovecot user
> * Try to run the mysql query as user dovecot (su dovecot)
> * Try to set the local ip instead of localhost (mysql makes a difference in 
> the ACL checks if you come from localhost)

(Y) in addition:

* Did mysql logged something useful?

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Steffen Kaiser
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