[Dovecot] Cannot create auth-master file
Hi all,
I'm trying to get postfix and dovecot working nicely together to process and store mail for both local (system) on one domain and virtual users and a few different domains.
I've got postfix up and running quite nicely, but am having a few problems with Dovecot. Every time postfix tried to delivery a message to a virtual user using dovecot I get an error like the following in /var/log/mail.log:
Mar 8 21:53:58 rhy postfix/pipe[6616]: 89C94846E: to=<gregf@gregsfamily.com>, orig_to=<greg@gregsfamily.com>, relay=dovecot, delay=8795, delays=8794/0.01/0/0.61, dsn=4.3.0, status=deferred (temporary failure)
At the same instant, in my dovecot log I'll get this error:
deliver(gregf@gregsfamily.com): 2010-03-08 21:53:58 Error: Can't connect to auth server at /var/run/dovecot/auth-master: Connection refused
So, I'm guessing that this is a permissions issue (somewhere) and that the dovecot process is not able to create the file /var/run/dovecot/auth-master. The permissions on this folder are as follows:
gregf@rhy:/etc/dovecot$ ls -al /var/run/dovecot/ total 0 drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 100 2010-03-08 21:44 . drwxr-xr-x 15 root root 660 2010-03-08 22:00 .. srw------- 1 vmail root 0 2010-03-08 21:43 auth-master srwxrwxrwx 1 root root 0 2010-03-08 21:43 dict-server drwxr-x--- 2 root dovecot 60 2010-03-08 21:44 login
I've searched around for hours, found several threads describing similar issues, but no solutions that have worked for me. If anyone is able to give me any pointers or suggestions I would be most grateful.
My dovecot configuration is:
gregf@rhy:/etc/dovecot$ sudo dovecot -n
1.1.11: /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf
OS: Linux 2.6.28-18-generic x86_64 Ubuntu 9.04 ext3
log_timestamp: %Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S protocols: imaps pop3s imap pop3 login_dir: /var/run/dovecot/login login_executable(default): /usr/lib/dovecot/imap-login login_executable(imap): /usr/lib/dovecot/imap-login login_executable(pop3): /usr/lib/dovecot/pop3-login mail_privileged_group: mail mail_location: maildir:/home/vmail/%d/%u mail_debug: yes mail_executable(default): /usr/lib/dovecot/imap mail_executable(imap): /usr/lib/dovecot/imap mail_executable(pop3): /usr/lib/dovecot/pop3 mail_plugin_dir(default): /usr/lib/dovecot/modules/imap mail_plugin_dir(imap): /usr/lib/dovecot/modules/imap mail_plugin_dir(pop3): /usr/lib/dovecot/modules/pop3 auth default: mechanisms: plain login user: vmail debug: yes debug_passwords: yes passdb: driver: sql args: /etc/dovecot/dovecot-sql.conf userdb: driver: static args: uid=5000 gid=5000 home=/home/vmail/%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: vmail
:wq G
Hi all,
Sorry, I thought a migration to /etc/dovecot/dovecot-postfix.conf would do the trick, but it would appear (after several hours of grappling with a new problem) that 'something' is still reading configuration information from /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf.
Essentially I've been having problems getting dovecot to deliver mail to the correct location using mail_location and the 'userdb static' arg parameter. I finally deduce that no matter what I change I cannot get the mail delivered to the correct location, and in fact, after inserting a load of bogus values, mail would still arrive without problem at /home/vmail/%d/%n/. It turns out that 'something', I'm guessing maybe /usr/lib/dovecot/deliver is reading configuration from /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf, and not the -postfix.conf variant which I am now trying to maintain.
I've checked the Ubuntu Server documentation for dovecot which makes all references to dovecot.conf and never to dovecot-postfix.conf. Maybe I should be looking at documentation for the combined postfix/dovecot package, but I haven't found this anywhere.
Essentially, can anyone either explain to me how the two files are meant to work in harmony together, or confirm that I won't cause myself any problems further down the line by removing dovecot-postfix.conf?
Sorry to bug the list with such amateurish questions :-).
Cheers, Greg.
On 8 Mar 2010, at 22:35, Timo Sirainen wrote:
On 03/09/2010 05:02 PM Greg Frith wrote:
a) Please file a bug report in the Unbuntu bug tracking system. b) in master.cf change: … argv=/path/2/dovecot/deliver -f ${sender} … to: … argv=/path/2/dovecot/deliver -c /path/to/config -f ${sender} …
Regards, Pascal
The trapper recommends today: fabaceae.1006817@localdomain.org
Hi all,
Thanks to Pascal here for suggesting that I pass the configuration file to the deliver process. In fact, what I have done is uninstalled the Ubuntu dovecot-postfix package in favour of a 'clearer' postfix, dovecot etc stack of my own. Having dug a big deeper in various ubuntu forums, it would appear that others have had similar problems with the dovecot LDA reading its configuration from the main rather than -postfix variant of the configuration.
I'll file a bug with Ubuntu.
Thanks for you help.
Advice for other reading this thread, stick with installing and configuring the individual components yourself!
:wq.
On 9 Mar 2010, at 16:50, Pascal Volk wrote:
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