Hi Timo,
Thnx for your time replying me. I did the steps as suggested on the link and here are the details now. IMAP, SSL , POP3 SASL, IMAP-QUOTA etc .. everything works perfect but the LDA is still giving the same error, details are below:
wm:/etc/mail# netstat -lpn
Active Internet connections (only servers)
Proto Recv-Q Send-Q Local Address Foreign Address
State PID/Program name
tcp 0 0 0.0.0.0:993 0.0.0.0:*
LISTEN 10853/dovecot
tcp 0 0 0.0.0.0:995 0.0.0.0:*
LISTEN 10853/dovecot
tcp 0 0 127.0.0.1:3306 0.0.0.0:*
LISTEN 3108/mysqld
tcp 0 0 127.0.0.1:587 0.0.0.0:*
LISTEN 11281/sendmail: MTA
tcp 0 0 0.0.0.0:110 0.0.0.0:*
LISTEN 10853/dovecot
tcp 0 0 0.0.0.0:143 0.0.0.0:*
LISTEN 10853/dovecot
tcp 0 0 0.0.0.0:465 0.0.0.0:*
LISTEN 11281/sendmail: MTA
tcp 0 0 0.0.0.0:113 0.0.0.0:*
LISTEN 3240/inetd
tcp 0 0 0.0.0.0:21 0.0.0.0:*
LISTEN 3240/inetd
tcp 0 0 10.10.4.20:25 0.0.0.0:*
LISTEN 11281/sendmail: MTA
tcp 0 0 127.0.0.1:25 0.0.0.0:*
LISTEN 11281/sendmail: MTA
tcp6 0 0 :::80 :::*
LISTEN 7878/apache2
tcp6 0 0 :::22 :::*
LISTEN 3281/sshd
Active UNIX domain sockets (only servers)
Proto RefCnt Flags Type State I-Node PID/Program
name Path
unix 2 [ ACC ] STREAM LISTENING 6934
3108/mysqld /var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock
unix 2 [ ACC ] STREAM LISTENING 7136
3229/acpid /var/run/acpid.socket
unix 2 [ ACC ] STREAM LISTENING 7303
3271/saslauthd /var/run/saslauthd/mux
unix 2 [ ACC ] STREAM LISTENING 32330
11281/sendmail: MTA /var/run/sendmail/mta/smcontrol
unix 2 [ ACC ] STREAM LISTENING 31460
10853/dovecot /var/run/dovecot/dict-server
unix 2 [ ACC ] STREAM LISTENING 31462
10853/dovecot /var/run/dovecot/login/default
unix 2 [ ACC ] STREAM LISTENING 31467
10853/dovecot /var/run/dovecot/auth-worker.10854
unix 2 [ ACC ] STREAM LISTENING 31469
10854/dovecot-auth /var/run/dovecot/auth-master
wm:/etc/mail#
--- dovecot.conf ---------------------------------------
protocol lda { postmaster_address = postmaster@wm.niit.edu.pk auth_socket_path = /var/run/dovecot/auth-master mail_plugin_dir = /usr/local/lib/dovecot/lda/ mail_plugins = quota }
# requires roots. Note that this user is NOT used to access mails. # That user is specified by userdb above. user = root
socket listen { master { # Master socket provides access to userdb information. It's typically # used to give Dovecot's local delivery agent access to userdb so it # can find mailbox locations. path = /var/run/dovecot/auth-master mode = 0600 # Default user/group is the one who started dovecot-auth (root) #user = #group = } #client { # The client socket is generally safe to export to everyone. Typical use # is to export it to your SMTP server so it can do SMTP AUTH lookups # using it. #path = /var/run/dovecot/auth-client #mode = 0660 #} }
------------ sendmail.mc ---------------
LOCAL_CONFIG
FEATURE(use_cw_file')dnl FEATURE(use_ct_file')dnl
FEATURE(nouucp', reject')dnl
FEATURE(bestmx_is_local')dnl FEATURE(mailertable')dnl
FEATURE(`smrsh')dnl
FEATURE(local_procmail', /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/deliver',`deliver
-d $u')
MAILER_DEFINITIONS
MAILER(local)dnl
MAILER(smtp)dnl
MODIFY_MAILER_FLAGS(LOCAL', -f')
LOCAL_CONFIG
--------------- mail.log ------------------------- Apr 15 14:42:22 wm sm-mta[11875]: STARTTLS=server, relay=root@ns3.niit.edu.pk [10.10.4.66] (may be forged), version=TLSv1/SSLv3, verify=NOT, cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA, bits=256/256 Apr 15 14:42:42 wm sm-mta[11875]: l3F9gLLc011875: from=azher@niit.edu.pk, size=972, class=0, nrcpts=1, msgid=4621F374.6050108@niit.edu.pk, proto=ESMTP, daemon=MTA-v4, relay=root@ns3.niit.edu.pk [10.10.4.66] (may be forged) Apr 15 14:42:42 wm sm-mta[11877]: l3F9gLLc011875: Warning: program /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/deliver unsafe: Group writable directory Apr 15 14:42:42 wm sm-mta[11876]: l3F9gLLc011875: to=azher@wm.niit.edu.pk, delay=00:00:00, xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=local, pri=31258, dsn=4.0.0, stat=Deferred: local mailer (/usr/local/libexec/dovecot/deliver) exited with EX_TEMPFAIL
Timo Sirainen wrote:
On 14.4.2007, at 22.55, Azher Amin wrote:
deliver(azher): Apr 15 00:52:49 Error: net_connect(/var/run/dovecot/auth-master) failed: No such file or directory .. wm:/var/mail/indexes# ls -l /var/run/dovecot/ total 8 srw------- 1 root root 0 2007-04-15 00:47 auth-worker.3668 srwxrwxrwx 1 root root 0 2007-04-15 00:47 dict-server drwxr-x--- 2 root dovecot 4096 2007-04-15 00:47 login -rw------- 1 root root 5 2007-04-15 00:47 master.pid wm:/var/mail/indexes#
So deliver doesn't work at all, and it has nothing to do with quota?
You'll need to set up the auth-master socket as http://wiki.dovecot.org/LDA explains.
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