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?