Jack Fredrikson jackfredrikson@yahoo.com (Mon Oct 24 21:00:54 2011):
Hi; This is my 6th day installing my first Postfix/Dovecot installation. The Postfix mailing list indicates I've got the MTA under control so now I'm seeking your help with the MDA. I get these errors with legitimate email addresses: Oct 24 11:47:38 myserver dovecot: auth-worker: Error: mysql(localhost): Connect failed to database (postfix): Access denied for user 'dovecot'@'localhost' (using password: YES) - waiting for 25 seconds before retry
Now I've logged in myself: mysql -u dovecot -p Enter password: xxx and succeeded. What am I doing wrong?
You should test:
mysql -udovecot -pxxx -hlocalhost postfixto simulate the dovecot attemts.
I've noticed that every time I restart dovecot I get this error in the dovecot-deliver.log:
Oct 24 11:31:11 lda: Error: userdb lookup: connect(/usr/local/var/run/dovecot/auth-userdb) failed: Permission denied (euid=512(vmail) egid=512(vmail) missing +r perm: /usr/local/var/run/dovecot/auth-userdb, dir owned by 0:0 mode=0755) Oct 24 11:31:11 lda: Fatal: Internal error occurred. Refer to server log for more information.
Every time I go to chmod 666 on that file, restarting dovecot wipes those permissions. How fix? Even when I fix that, I still get the "temporary failure". Please advise.
This file is not a file, it is a socket and gets recreated every time you restart dovecot. There is, if I remember well, some config option "mode" near the name of the name of the socket.
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