Re: [Dovecot] Dovecot Deliver Problem

hi jakob,

thx for the reply =)

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Sep 12 23:17:30 server deliver: net_connect(/var/Process/dovecot/auth-master.socket) failed: Connection refused

AFAIK, this usually means that there is no process listening on that socket.

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    master { path        = /var/Process/dovecot/auth-master.socket
             mode        = 666

This is not sufficient, as dovecot will set the permissions of /var/Process/dovecot/ to 700 (given that this is your login_dir). So I put the socket into /var/spool/vmail, where the user that runs the lda has sufficient rights.

ok.

with your comment about perms, i started looking into my Process dir a little deeper.

starting with a 'clean' env:

% cd /var/Process
% ls -al dovecot
	/usr/local/bin/ls: dovecot: No such file or directory

and configs of:

**** dovecot.conf **** ... socket listen { master { path = /var/Process/dovecot/auth-master mode = 666 } } ... login_user = mailuser_login login_dir = /var/Process/dovecot/login ....

**** dovecot-deliver.conf **** .... auth_socket_path = /var/Process/dovecot/auth-master ....

starting dovecot immediately results in a couple of 'Warnings':

% /usr/local/dovecot/sbin/dovecot -c /var/Settings/Dovecot/dovecot.conf
	Warning: Corrected permissions for base directory /var/Process/dovecot
	Warning: Corrected permissions for login directory /var/Process/dovecot/login

and an original set of dir/file perms of:

% ls -alR dovecot dovecot: total 4 drwx------ 6 root wheel 204 Sep 13 10:11 . drwxrwxr-x 12 mailuser mailuser 408 Sep 13 10:11 .. srw------- 1 mailuser mailuser 0 Sep 13 10:11 auth-worker.14226 drwxr-x--- 3 root mailuser_login 102 Sep 13 10:11 login -rw------- 1 root wheel 6 Sep 13 10:11 master.pid -rw------- 1 root wheel 0 Sep 13 10:11 ssl-parameters.dat

dovecot/login:
total 0
drwxr-x---  3 root mailuser_login     102 Sep 13 10:11 .
drwx------  6 root wheel              204 Sep 13 10:11 ..
srw-rw----  1 root mailuser_login       0 Sep 13 10:11 default

and, per the wiki:

"You could also use user = root to make sure that Exim has write access to the socket, but Exim doesn't allow delivery as root by default (this is a build time setting and there are good reasons for that). So set the socket owner and permissions so the user vmail has r/w access."

i've set my exim transport to use user:

dovecot_lda:
	...
	user                = mailuser

so, QUESTIONS:

(1) where's "auth-master"?

this probly explains the:

Sep 13 10:20:30 devbox deliver: net_connect(/var/Process/dovecot/auth-master) 

failed: Permission denied

(2) and WHICH permissions are the problem?

thx,

richard