I am making my first attempt to get dovecot working with Postfix virtual users/domains. The following is the error log and the output of "dovecot -n".

I am probably doing something really stupid; however, I do not know what.

Oct 03 17:50:41 pop3-login: Info: Login: user=<user@mydomain.com>, method=PLAIN, rip=192.168.1.103, lip=192.168.1.103, TLS Oct 03 17:50:41 POP3(user@mydomain.com): Info: Effective uid=1001, gid=1001, home=/var/mail/virtual/mydomain.com/user Oct 03 17:50:41 POP3(user@mydomain.com): Info: maildir: data=/var/mail/vhost/seibercom.net/budman Oct 03 17:50:41 POP3(user@mydomain.com): Info: maildir++: root=/var/mail/vhost/seibercom.net/budman, index=, control=, inbox=/var/mail/vhost/mydomain.com/user Oct 03 17:50:41 POP3(user@mydomain.com): Info: Namespace : Using permissions from /var/mail/vhost/mydomain.com/user: mode=0755 gid=-1 Oct 03 17:50:41 POP3(user@mydomain.com): Info: Disconnected: Logged out top=0/0, retr=0/0, del=0/0, size=0 Oct 03 18:13:13 deliver(user@mydomain.com): Error: userdb lookup: connect(/var/run/dovecot/auth-master) failed: Permission denied

# dovecot -n # 1.2.4: /usr/local/etc/dovecot.conf # OS: FreeBSD 7.2-STABLE i386 ufs log_path: /usr/home/gerard/tmp/dovecot.log protocols: pop3 pop3s disable_plaintext_auth: no login_dir: /var/run/dovecot/login login_executable: /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/pop3-login login_greeting: Dovecot serving mydomain.net greets you! verbose_proctitle: yes first_valid_uid: 1000 first_valid_gid: 1000 mail_privileged_group: mail mail_location: maildir:/var/mail/vhost/%d/%n mail_debug: yes mail_executable: /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/pop3 mail_plugin_dir: /usr/local/lib/dovecot/pop3 pop3_client_workarounds: outlook-no-nuls oe-ns-eoh dict_db_config: /usr/local/etc/dovecot-db.conf lda: postmaster_address: postmaster@mydomain.net sendmail_path: /usr/sbin/sendmail auth default: mechanisms: plain login username_format: %Lu verbose: yes debug_passwords: yes passdb: driver: pam passdb: driver: passwd-file args: /usr/local/etc/dovecot_passwd userdb: driver: passwd args: blocking=yes userdb: driver: static args: uid=gerard gid=gerard home=/var/mail/virtual/%d/%n socket: type: listen client: path: /var/run/dovecot/auth-client mode: 432 master: path: /var/run/dovecot/auth-master mode: 384

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