Hi all

I am trying to migrate to dovecot 2.0.9

Dovecot starts without warnings but when I try to connect with a client I always got this error message in the log file:

Feb 10 12:57:36 v37143 dovecot: master: Dovecot v2.0.9 starting up (core dumps disabled)

Feb 10 12:57:56 v37143 dovecot: auth: Fatal: static userdb: Empty key (=)

Feb 10 12:57:56 v37143 dovecot: master: Error: service(auth): command startup failed, throttling

Feb 10 12:58:31 v37143 dovecot: imap-login: Error: Timeout waiting for handshake from auth server. my pid=17537, input bytes=0

Feb 10 12:58:56 v37143 dovecot: auth: Fatal: static userdb: Empty key (=)

Feb 10 12:58:56 v37143 dovecot: master: Error: service(auth): command startup failed, throttling

Feb 10 12:59:26 v37143 dovecot: imap-login: Error: Timeout waiting for handshake from auth server. my pid=17537, input bytes=0

Feb 10 12:59:26 v37143 dovecot: imap-login: Disconnected (no auth attempts): rip=217.91.177.10, lip=89.202.2.143

This is the output of dovecot –n:

# 2.0.9: /usr/local/etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf

# OS: Linux 2.6.18-028stab070.14 x86_64 Ubuntu 10.04.1 LTS reiserfs

auth_mechanisms = plain login

disable_plaintext_auth = no

hostname = v37143.1blu.de

mail_location = maildir:/vmail/%d/%n

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

namespace {

inbox = yes

location = maildir:/vmail/%d/%n

prefix =

separator = /

type = private

}

passdb {

args = /scripts/sql/dovecot/user_auth.sql

driver = sql

}

plugin {

sieve = ~/.dovecot.sieve

sieve_dir = ~/sieve

sieve_global_dir = /var/lib/dovecot/sieve/global

sieve_global_path = /var/lib/dovecot/sieve/default.sieve

}

postmaster_address = root@delellis.net

protocols = imap

service auth {

unix_listener /var/spool/postfix/private/auth {

group = postfix

mode = 0660

user = postfix

}

unix_listener auth-userdb {

mode = 0660

user = vmail

}

}

ssl_cert = </certs/mail/mailpublic.pem

ssl_key = </certs/mail/mailkey.pem

userdb {

args = uid=vmail gid=vmail home=/var/vmail/%d/%n allow_all_users = yes

driver = static

}

protocol lda {

mail_plugins = " sieve"

}

Any ideas ?

Mit freundlichem Gruß

Carsten Laun-De Lellis

Dipl.-Ing. Elektrotechnik

Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA)

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