On Sat, 2007-11-17 at 22:02 +0100, Ronny wrote:
dovecot: Nov 17 21:40:30 Info: Dovecot v1.0.7 starting up dovecot: Nov 17 21:40:30 Error: Socket already exists: /var/run/dovecot/dict-server
This error is ignored.
after removing the whole directory /var/run/dovecot again there is only, without any error code
dovecot: Nov 17 21:58:59 Info: Dovecot v1.0.7 starting up dovecot: Nov 17 21:58:59 Error: Auth process died too early - shutting down
The "without error code" most likely just means that Dovecot shut down before it saw that dovecot-auth exited with error 53.
Some things you could try:
Does Cygwin have strace? Run "strace -f dovecot" to see if it shows something interesting.
Is the problem with starting dovecot-auth or after dovecot-auth has already started? Try setting auth_executable = /tmp/test.sh where test.sh is something like:
#!/bin/sh echo "i'm running" > /tmp/dovecot.output exit 0
If that worked, try adding exit(0); as the first statement in src/auth/main.c's main() function to see if it returns 53 before or after it reaches that far.