postfix/dovecot - [private/dovecot-lmtp]: No such file or directory

[Aki Tuomi]

On 22.02.2016 03:59, soko.tica wrote:
> Hello list,
>
> I am trying to send a mail message from root to a system user on the same
> box. While postfix functions without dovecot properly, once dovecot is
> installed, I get the message from logs as set in the subject line - that
> postfix/lmpt cannot connect to [private/dovecot-lmtp]: No such file or
> directory
>
> Also, user's ~/.Maildir aren't created, although there is such instructions
> in dovecot. Finally, doveconf -n says there is no ssl enabled, although I
> explicitly set it in /conf.d/10-ssl.conf
>
> Below are dmesg, postconf -n, doveconf -n and a snippet from
> /var/log/mail.log
>
> Please advise. Thanks in advance.
>
> $ doveconf -n
> # 2.2.13: /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf
> # OS: Linux 3.18.26-x1-64 x86_64 Debian 8.3
> hostname = mail.domain.tld
> protocols = lmtp
> service lmtp {
>    unix_listener lmtp {
>      group = postfix
>      mode = 0600
>      user = postfix
>    }
> }
>

You probably want to define socket path here, so that the socket gets 
created in postfix's private directory, probably /var/lib/postfix/private

Aki