Hi,

I'm migrating an existing dovecot (1. series) to new hardware. The new dovecot is a 2. series. I copied the old config and did a doveconf -n -c /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf > dovecot-2.conf Then I moved the dovecot-2.conf to dovecot.conf and restarted dovecot. When Postfix tries to deliver a message I get this error :

2013-09-16 11:00:10 auth: Fatal: net_connect_unix(auth-worker) in directory /run/dovecot failed: Permission denied (euid=65534(nobody) egid=65534(nogroup) missing +r perm: /run/dovecot/auth-worker, dir owned by 0:0 mode=0755) 2013-09-16 11:00:10 master: Error: service(auth): command startup failed, throttling

I tried different things with /run/dovecot/auth-worker, but the error remains. I tried to chmod 777 the socket, I chown-ed to dovecot:dovecot, vmail:vmail.

What am I missing ? AFAIK the sql-tables are OK.

Thanks.

doveconf -n is this : # 2.0.19: /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf # OS: Linux 3.5.0-39-generic x86_64 Ubuntu 12.04.3 LTS auth_debug = yes auth_mechanisms = plain login auth_verbose = yes base_dir = /var/run/dovecot/ disable_plaintext_auth = no first_valid_uid = 499 info_log_path = /var/log/dovecot.debug last_valid_uid = 499 log_path = /var/log/dovecot log_timestamp = "%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S " mail_debug = yes mail_location = maildir:/var/vmail/%u managesieve_notify_capability = mailto managesieve_sieve_capability = fileinto reject envelope encoded-character vacation subaddress comparator-i;ascii-numeric relational regex imap4flags copy include variables body enotify environment mailbox date ihave passdb { args = /etc/dovecot/dovecot-sql.conf driver = sql } plugin { sieve = ~/.dovecot.sieve sieve_dir = ~/sieve } protocols = imap sieve service auth { unix_listener /var/spool/postfix/private/auth { group = postfix mode = 0660 user = postfix } unix_listener auth-master { group = vmail mode = 0660 user = vmail } user = nobody } service imap-login { executable = /usr/lib/dovecot/imap-login inet_listener imap { address = * port = 143 } inet_listener imaps { address = * port = 993 } } service imap { executable = /usr/lib/dovecot/imap } service pop3-login { executable = /usr/lib/dovecot/pop3-login inet_listener pop3 { address = * port = 110 } } service pop3 { executable = /usr/lib/dovecot/pop3 } ssl_ca = </etc/postfix/certificate/cacert.org.pem ssl_cert = </etc/postfix/certificate/mailbox.pem ssl_key = </etc/postfix/certificate/mailboxkey.pem userdb { args = /etc/dovecot/dovecot-sql.conf driver = sql } verbose_ssl = yes protocol imap { imap_max_line_length = 64 k } protocol pop3 { pop3_uidl_format = %08Xu%08Xv } protocol sieve { managesieve_logout_format = bytes ( in=%i : out=%o ) } protocol lda { auth_socket_path = /var/run/dovecot/auth-master info_log_path = /var/log/dovecot-lda.log log_path = /var/log/dovecot-lda-err.log mail_plugins = sieve postmaster_address = some-one@ace-electronics.be sendmail_path = /usr/lib/sendmail }