Hi,

I have compiled dovecot 1.0 and postfix 2.3 with dovecot support.

here are my config sections

dovecot in auth default section

client {
  user = postfix
  group = postfix
  /path = /var/run/dovecot/auth-client
  mode = 0660
}

postfix main.cf

smtpd_sasl_auth_enable = yes broken_sasl_auth_clients = yes smtpd_sender_restrictions = permit_sasl_authenticated, check_sender_access hash:/etc/postfix/sender_access smtpd_recipient_restrictions =permit_sasl_authenticated, reject_unknown_recipient_domain, reject_invalid_hostname, reject_non_fqdn_recipient, # reject_non_fqdn_hostname, reject_non_fqdn_sender, reject_non_fqdn_recipient, reject_unknown_sender_domain, permit_mynetworks, reject_unauth_destination,

smtpd_sasl_type = dovecot smtpd_sasl_path = /var/run/dovecot/auth-client

in postfix logs i get

Jul 29 16:36:22 localhost postfix/smtpd[1437]: warning: SASL: Connect to /var/run/dovecot/auth-client failed: Permission denied Jul 29 16:36:22 localhost postfix/smtpd[1437]: fatal: no SASL authentication mechanisms Jul 29 16:36:23 localhost postfix/master[1426]: warning: process /usr/libexec/postfix/smtpd pid 1437 exit status 1 Jul 29 16:36:23 localhost postfix/master[1426]: warning: /usr/libexec/postfix/smtpd: bad command startup -- throttling

basically socket file is not created by dovecot

-sh-2.05b# ls /var/run/dovecot/auth-client ls: /var/run/dovecot/auth-client: No such file or directory

not sure why

Regards, -Manish

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