I'm still troubleshooting a faulty email server, and got the following results when I tried doveadm:

kwright@grace:/etc/dovecot/conf.d$ doveadm auth lookup me@mydomain.com Error: auth-master: passdb lookup(me@mydomain.com): Auth PASS lookup failed Error: passdb lookup failed for me@mydomain.com kwright@grace:/etc/dovecot/conf.d$ doveadm auth test me@mydomain.com Password: Error: auth-client: conn unix:/var/run/dovecot/auth-client: connect(/var/run/dovecot/auth-client) failed: Permission denied (euid=1000(kwright) egid=1000(kwright) missing +r perm: /var/run/dovecot/auth-client, dir owned by 0:0 mode=0755) kwright@grace:/etc/dovecot/conf.d$ ls -la /var/run/dovecot/auth-client srw------- 1 dovecot root 0 Jan 4 19:09 /var/run/dovecot/auth-client

I see /var/run/dovecot/auth-client only has read and write permissions for the owner and nothing for anyone else. Is this part of my problem?

Ken