On Mon, Aug 4, 2008 at 4:19 AM, Eduardo M KALINOWSKI eduardo@kalinowski.com.br wrote:

Carl Vondrick wrote:

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I believe I have narrowed down the problem to dovecot-auth not finding my userdb. But, I am able to connect to dovecot via IMAP in my MUA and preform operations (read, delete mail, create folders). This leads me to believe my userdb is setup correctly.

Does anyone have any idea as to why dovecot-auth would not find my userdb? (Configuration is below).

Are you using virtual users?

Yes, from a simple passwd-like file that contains something like:

vondrick:{SSHA}foobar:1000:1000::/home/carl/mail/vondrick

In this case, Dovecot's deliver needs a master socket to get user information from. See instructions at http://wiki.dovecot.org/LDA .

I have adjusted my configuration so that a master auth socket is created. I confirmed it's created, but the problem still persists.

carl@cvondrick:~$ dovecot -n # 1.0.10: /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf log_path: /var/log/dovecot.log ssl_disable: yes disable_plaintext_auth: no verbose_ssl: yes login_dir: /var/run/dovecot/login login_executable: /usr/lib/dovecot/imap-login mail_location: mbox:/home/carl/mail/%u mail_debug: yes dotlock_use_excl: yes auth default: verbose: yes debug: yes passdb: driver: passwd-file args: /etc/dovecot/passwd userdb: driver: passwd-file args: username_format=%u /etc/dovecot/passwd socket: type: listen master: path: /var/run/dovecot/auth-master mode: 511 user: carl

carl@cvondrick:~$ ls /var/run/dovecot/ auth-master auth-worker.25156 dict-server login master.pid

carl@cvondrick:~$ /usr/lib/dovecot/dovecot-auth dovecot-auth: Fatal: You'll need to add at least one userdb

Any ideas? I configured deliver to log, but nothing is written to the log when the permissions are 0666.

Carl

On Mon, Aug 4, 2008 at 5:31 PM, Timo Sirainen tss@iki.fi wrote:

On Aug 4, 2008, at 6:11 PM, Carl Vondrick wrote:

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In this case, Dovecot's deliver needs a master socket to get user information from. See instructions at http://wiki.dovecot.org/LDA .

I have adjusted my configuration so that a master auth socket is created. I confirmed it's created, but the problem still persists.

How exactly do you see the problem with deliver?

In short, it causes fetchmail / getmail to fail. There doesn't seem to be an error message either.

carl@cvondrick:~$ fetchmail 329 messages for carl@vondrick.com at pop.gmail.com (14160305 octets). reading message carl@vondrick.com@gmail-pop.l.google.com:1 of 329 (5416 octets).fetchmail: error writing message text fetchmail: MDA error while fetching from carl@vondrick.com@pop.gmail.com fetchmail: Query status=6 (IOERR)

carl@cvondrick:~$ cat .fetchmailrc poll pop.gmail.com with proto POP3 user carl@vondrick.com there with pass foobar mda "/usr/lib/dovecot/deliver -d vondrick" ssl

There is similar behavior with getmail: carl@cvondrick:~$ getmail getmail version 4.7.7 Copyright (C) 1998-2007 Charles Cazabon. Licensed under the GNU GPL version 2. SimplePOP3SSLRetriever:carl@vondrick.com@pop.gmail.com:995: Delivery error (command deliver 32064 error (78, )) msg 1/329 (5416 bytes), delivery error (command deliver 32064 error (78, ))

I'm following the example in this thread: http://dovecot.org/pipermail/dovecot/2007-July/024012.html

Thanks for your responses so far -- this is a very helpful and active community.

Carl

Everything seems to work now. I needed to configure a postmaster_address in the dovecot.conf. I guess I missed this in the docs somewhere.

For the random Googler who sees this later on:

protocol lda { auth_socket_path = /var/run/dovecot/auth-master log_path = /var/log/dovecot-deliver.log info_log_path = /var/log/dovecot-deliver.log

postmaster_address = postmaster@example.org

}

Thanks for the great project!

On Mon, Aug 4, 2008 at 7:57 PM, Timo Sirainen tss@iki.fi wrote:

On Aug 4, 2008, at 10:53 PM, Carl Vondrick wrote:

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How exactly do you see the problem with deliver?

In short, it causes fetchmail / getmail to fail. There doesn't seem to be an error message either.

You should probably find deliver's error log file. See http://wiki.dovecot.org/LDA -> logging and http://wiki.dovecot.org/Logging

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Delivery error (command deliver 32064 error (78, )) msg 1/329 (5416 bytes), delivery error (command deliver 32064 error (78, ))

78 means EX_CONFIG. If deliver got called, it should have logged the actual error.