On Wednesday June 20, 2007 at 01:51:05 (AM) J Charles Ferrari wrote:

What is auth-master, and how do I create it?

Using postfix 2.1.5

dovecot 1.0.0

# /opt/local/etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf base_dir: /var/run/dovecot/ log_path: /var/log/dovecot_error.log info_log_path: /var/log/dovecot.log protocols: imap pop3 ssl_disable: yes login_dir: /var/run/dovecot/login login_executable(default): /opt/local/libexec/dovecot/imap-login login_executable(imap): /opt/local/libexec/dovecot/imap-login login_executable(pop3): /opt/local/libexec/dovecot/pop3-login mail_extra_groups: mail mail_location: maildir:/var/Maildir/%u mail_debug: yes mail_executable(default): /opt/local/libexec/dovecot/imap mail_executable(imap): /opt/local/libexec/dovecot/imap mail_executable(pop3): /opt/local/libexec/dovecot/pop3 mail_plugin_dir(default): /opt/local/lib/dovecot/imap mail_plugin_dir(imap): /opt/local/lib/dovecot/imap mail_plugin_dir(pop3): /opt/local/lib/dovecot/pop3 auth default: verbose: yes debug: yes passdb: driver: pam userdb: driver: passwd socket: type: listen client: master: path: /var/run/dovecot/auth-master mode: 384 user: vmail group: mail

I am not sure if this is relevant or not; however, I was wondering why you are still using a depreciated version of Postfix? There have been numerous enhancements incorporated into newer versions. Have you considered upgrading?

-- Gerard

On 20.6.2007, at 8.51, J Charles Ferrari wrote:

What is auth-master, and how do I create it? .. master: path: /var/run/dovecot/auth-master mode: 384 user: vmail group: mail

Here you create it. I guess that error message comes from deliver. So
two possibilities:

1. Change the path setting above to /opt/local/..etc...

2. Change auth_socket_path inside protocol lda {}