Hello:

i'm trying a tutorial (http://workaround.org/articles/ispmail-etch/en.html) for setting up postfix / dovecot but am getting some errors when i try to start dovecot

here's some details of the enviromnent. (Fedora Core 6)

$ uname -a Linux foo.com 2.6.18-1.2798.fc6 #1 SMP Mon Oct 16 14:37:32 EDT 2006 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux $ ./dovecot --version 1.0.0

$ ./dovecot -n # /opt/dovecot-1.0.0/etc/dovecot.conf protocols: imap imaps pop3 pop3s ssl_disable: yes login_dir: /opt/dovecot-1.0.0/var/run/dovecot/login login_executable(default): /opt/dovecot-1.0.0/libexec/dovecot/imap-login login_executable(imap): /opt/dovecot-1.0.0/libexec/dovecot/imap-login login_executable(pop3): /opt/dovecot-1.0.0/libexec/dovecot/pop3-login mail_location: maildir:/var/spool/foomail/%d/%n mail_executable(default): /opt/dovecot-1.0.0/libexec/dovecot/imap mail_executable(imap): /opt/dovecot-1.0.0/libexec/dovecot/imap mail_executable(pop3): /opt/dovecot-1.0.0/libexec/dovecot/pop3 mail_plugin_dir(default): /opt/dovecot-1.0.0/lib/dovecot/imap mail_plugin_dir(imap): /opt/dovecot-1.0.0/lib/dovecot/imap mail_plugin_dir(pop3): /opt/dovecot-1.0.0/lib/dovecot/pop3 auth default: passdb: driver: pam passdb: driver: sql args: /opt/dovecot-1.0.0/etc/dovecot_sql.conf userdb: driver: passwd userdb: driver: static args: uid=721 gid=721 home=/var/spool/foomail/%d/%n allow_all_users=yes socket: type: listen client: path: /var/spool/postfix/private/auth mode: 432 user: postfix group: postfix master: path: /var/run/dovecot/auth-master mode: 384 user: foomail $

now when i try to start dovecot it dies giving the following error message in /var/log/maillog

Jun 1 20:30:16 foo dovecot: Dovecot v1.0.0 starting up Jun 1 20:30:16 foo dovecot: auth(default): bind(/var/run/dovecot/auth-master) failed: No such file or directory Jun 1 20:30:16 foo dovecot: auth(default): net_listen_unix(/var/run/dovecot/auth-master) failed: No such file or directory Jun 1 20:30:16 foo dovecot: Auth process died too early - shutting down Jun 1 20:30:16 foo dovecot: child 9760 (auth) returned error 89

I've read the http://wiki.dovecot.org/CompilingSource but am stuck now with this issue. i also googled around a bit but could get any more information about this problem. any help is appreciated.

thanks in advance.

yashesh bhatia.

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