I've got dovecot v0.99.14, MySql 4.1.11 and postfix on fedora core 4. when using uxix socket I get: dovecot-auth: MySQL: Can't connect to database vmail: Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket '/var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock' (13)

when using tcp socket I get: dovecot-auth: MySQL: Can't connect to database vmail: Can't create TCP/IP socket (13)

• the mysql.sock exists
• I can connect to mysql -u vmail and select on the table mailbox
• I can run mysqladmin successfully using the port or the socket

As you can see below I modified the password query to be very simple. I am surprised to get the error on startup since the password query should not be executed at this point.

The problem is not MySql as I am able to query all day long the the vmail database table called mailbox with the vmail user.

Not sure what else I can check Dovecot error message lacks the reason it can not connect - unless the (13) means anything to anybody??? Anybody have any ideas???

dovecot.conf : . auth_assdb = mysql /etc/dovecot-mysql.conf

dovecot-mysql.conf : db_host = localhost db_unix_socket = /var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock #db_port = 3306 db = vmail db_user = vmail db_passdb = temp password_query = SELECT 'test' as password from mailbox

vmail.sql: create database vmail; use vmail; grant insert,select,update,delete on vmail.* to 'vmail'@'localhost' identified by 'temp'; CREATE TABLE mailbox ( user varchar(20) not null, domain varchar(30) not null, password varchar(20) not null, status char, PRIMARY KEY (user,domain) );

insert into mailbox values('someone', 'domain.org', 'secret', 'Y');