On Tue, May 6, 2025 at 1:26 PM Timo Sirainen <timo@sirainen.com> wrote:
On 6. May 2025, at 12.13, Odhiambo Washington via dovecot < dovecot@dovecot.org> wrote:
Then I created my auth-sql.conf.ext shown above. What I realized then is that the dovecot/auth service doesn't seem to be running. Not sure why.
It's only started when the first auth lookup is done. You could test also with "doveadm auth lookup" command what happens, and it should start the auth process then also.
May 06 12:02:20 pop3-login: Info: Login aborted: Logged out (auth service reported temporary failure
This again seems like there should be an error logged.
doveadm log errorsgives no output.Well, that's weird..
Looking at https://doc.dovecot.org/2.4.1/core/admin/running.html, and comparing with a system where I have installed Dovecot 2.4.1:
root@mail:/etc/dovecot/conf.d# ps auxw|grep "dovecot" root 9739 0.0 0.0 8872 4816 ? Ss 14:47 0:00 /usr/sbin/ dovecot -F root 9741 0.0 0.0 5324 3280 ? S 14:47 0:00 dovecot/ anvil root 9742 0.0 0.0 5428 3256 ? S 14:47 0:00 dovecot/log root 9743 0.0 0.1 51976 10248 ? S 14:47 0:00 dovecot/ config
This is expected at startup.
On an system running 2.3.21, I get: ...
That seems to be actually serving clients, so more processes have started up.
Is it normal that the dovecot/auth is not listed as a running service for 2.4.1?
Yes, and it's the same for 2.3 when starting up (unless you have changed process_min_avail settings).
info_log_path = /var/log/dovecot.log
Set also log_path = /var/log/dovecot.log - any errors logged there then?
Hi Timo,
I ultimately did pick up a dovecot.conf (for 2.4.x) that was shared on this
ML by @Joan Moreau <jom@grosjo.net> and customized the few obvious values
to match my install.
That helped so much to get Dovecot behaving sanely.
I was able to run doveadm log errors, which helped me figure out that
what I needed for default_password_scheme was SHA512-CRYPT instead of just
SHA512.
Why the default install of Dovecot on my system doesn't do this still is a mystery to me. A512-CRYPT512-CRYPT
Best regards, Odhiambo WASHINGTON, Nairobi,KE +254 7 3200 0004/+254 7 2274 3223 In an Internet failure case, the #1 suspect is a constant: DNS. "Oh, the cruft.", egrep -v '^$|^.*#' ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ :-) [How to ask smart questions: http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html]
On Tue, May 6, 2025 at 1:26 PM Timo Sirainen <timo@sirainen.com> wrote: On 6. May 2025, at 12.13, Odhiambo Washington via dovecot <dovecot@dovecot.org> wrote: > > Then I created my auth-sql.conf.ext shown above. > What I realized then is that the dovecot/auth service doesn't seem to be > running. Not sure why.
It's only started when the first auth lookup is done. You could test
also with "doveadm auth lookup" command what happens, and it should
start the auth process then also.
> May 06 12:02:20 pop3-login: Info: Login aborted: Logged out (auth
service
> reported temporary failure
This again seems like there should be an error logged.
> `doveadm log errors` gives no output.
Well, that's weird..
> Looking at https://doc.dovecot.org/2.4.1/core/admin/running.html,
and comparing
> with a system where I have installed Dovecot 2.4.1:
>
> root@mail:/etc/dovecot/conf.d# ps auxw|grep "dovecot"
> root 9739 0.0 0.0 8872 4816 ? Ss 14:47 0:00
/usr/sbin/
> dovecot -F
> root 9741 0.0 0.0 5324 3280 ? S 14:47 0:00
dovecot/
> anvil
> root 9742 0.0 0.0 5428 3256 ? S 14:47 0:00
dovecot/log
> root 9743 0.0 0.1 51976 10248 ? S 14:47 0:00
dovecot/
> config
This is expected at startup.
> On an system running 2.3.21, I get:
...
That seems to be actually serving clients, so more processes have
started up.
> Is it normal that the dovecot/auth is not listed as a running
service for
> 2.4.1?
Yes, and it's the same for 2.3 when starting up (unless you have
changed process_min_avail settings).
> info_log_path = /var/log/dovecot.log
Set also log_path = /var/log/dovecot.log - any errors logged there
then?Hi Timo,
I ultimately did pick up a dovecot.conf (for 2.4.x) that was shared on this ML
by @Joan_Moreau and customized the few obvious values to match my install.
That helped so much to get Dovecot behaving sanely.
I was able to run doveadm log errors, which helped me figure out that what I
needed for default_password_scheme was SHA512-CRYPT instead of just SHA512.
Why the default install of Dovecot on my system doesn't do this still is a mystery to me. A512-CRYPT512-CRYPT
Best regards, Odhiambo WASHINGTON, Nairobi,KE +254 7 3200 0004/+254 7 2274 3223 In an Internet failure case, the #1 suspect is a constant: DNS. "Oh, the cruft.", egrep -v '^$|^.*#' ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ :-) [How to ask smart questions: http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart- questions.html]