Hello list,
while fiddling around with the configuration so Dovecot's LDA "deliver" can be used by multiple users by means of Getmail (you can read about that in [1]) I always end up running into the error message posted in the subject line:
Jan 15 00:00:02 HOSTNAME deliver(USERID): Can't connect to auth server at /usr/local/var/run/dovecot/auth-master: Permission denied
Notice how it says "/usr/local/var/run/dovecot"! How and why does dovecot ^^^^^^^^^^ think that anything of any importance can be found under /usr/local/var/... ? Please see dovecot -n at the end of this message, but as far as I can tell I never ever specified that the /var directory (configure --localstatedir) should end up under the prefix /usr/local.
Now I am quite sure that my configuration for auth-master is not yet quite correct but I can't go any further without asking what this error message could mean and how to resolve the problem.
Anybody have any ideas? I am currently running 1.0.10 (previously, until this afternoon 1.0.5, same problem) with the latest MANAGESIEVE patch (v9) applied and the dovecot-sieve plugin.
TIA for any hints! I am at a loss here.
Andreas
[1] http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.mail.imap.dovecot/27062
# 1.0.10: /usr/local/etc/dovecot.conf base_dir: /var/run/dovecot/ protocols: imap imaps pop3 pop3s managesieve listen(default): * listen(imap): * listen(pop3): * listen(managesieve): *:2000 ssl_cert_file: /etc/ssl/certs/DOMAINNAME.crt ssl_key_file: /etc/ssl/private/DOMAINNAME.key login_dir: /var/run/dovecot//login login_executable(default): /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/imap-login login_executable(imap): /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/imap-login login_executable(pop3): /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/pop3-login login_executable(managesieve): /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/managesieve-login mail_extra_groups: mail mail_location: maildir:~/Maildir maildir_copy_with_hardlinks: yes mail_executable(default): /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/imap mail_executable(imap): /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/imap mail_executable(pop3): /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/pop3 mail_executable(managesieve): /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/managesieve mail_plugin_dir(default): /usr/local/lib/dovecot/imap mail_plugin_dir(imap): /usr/local/lib/dovecot/imap mail_plugin_dir(pop3): /usr/local/lib/dovecot/pop3 mail_plugin_dir(managesieve): /usr/local/lib/dovecot/managesieve imap_client_workarounds(default): outlook-idle delay-newmail tb-extra-mailbox-sep imap_client_workarounds(imap): outlook-idle delay-newmail tb-extra-mailbox-sep imap_client_workarounds(pop3): outlook-idle imap_client_workarounds(managesieve): outlook-idle pop3_uidl_format(default): pop3_uidl_format(imap): pop3_uidl_format(pop3): %08Xu%08Xv pop3_uidl_format(managesieve): namespace: type: public separator: / prefix: Public/ location: maildir:/var/mail/public:CONTROL=~/Maildir/control/public:INDEX=~/Maildir/index/public namespace: type: private separator: / inbox: yes auth default: mechanisms: login plain verbose: yes passdb: driver: pam userdb: driver: passwd socket: type: listen client: path: /var/spool/postfix/private/auth mode: 432 user: postfix group: postfix master: path: /var/run/dovecot/auth-master mode: 432 user: root group: dovecot
Andreas "daff" Ntaflos Vienna, Austria
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