I successfully got imap/pop3 working using 2.0b4, now im trying to also get lda working with exim but im totally confused. I dont know what should run as what user, getting confused on auth sockets, what to call them or set or whatever.

My exim runs as user/group mail/mail, dovecot has user dovecot but user mail for mail_user/group settings.

At one point running deliver -d user -f user gave me an error userdb lookup not possible with only userdb prefetch.

Here is my config at this particular point in time, probably will be hacked up again in a few seconds =P

# 2.0.beta4: /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf # OS: Linux 2.6.32-3-amd64 x86_64 Debian squeeze/sid auth_cache_negative_ttl = 3600 s auth_cache_size = 4096 auth_debug = yes auth_debug_passwords = yes auth_default_realm = olypen.com auth_mechanisms = plain login auth_socket_path = /var/run/dovecot/auth-userdb auth_username_format = %Lu auth_worker_max_count = 60 base_dir = /var/run/dovecot debug_log_path = /var/log/dovecot/debug.log default_vsz_limit = 536870912 deliver_log_format = %s from %f %$ disable_plaintext_auth = no dotlock_use_excl = yes first_valid_gid = 8 first_valid_uid = 8 fsync_disable = yes info_log_path = /var/log/dovecot/info.log last_valid_gid = 8 last_valid_uid = 8 lda_mailbox_autocreate = yes lda_mailbox_autosubscribe = yes log_path = /var/log/dovecot/dovecot.log log_timestamp = %Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S login_log_format = %s login_log_format_elements = (%u) (%r) mail_access_groups = mail mail_debug = yes mail_gid = 8 mail_location = maildir:~/:INDEX=~/dovecot-index mail_log_prefix = %Ls <%u>: mail_plugins = quota mail_privileged_group = mail mail_uid = 8 mailbox_idle_check_interval = 60 s namespace { hidden = yes inbox = yes list = yes location = maildir:%h/:INDEX=~/dovecot-index prefix = separator = / type = private } namespace { hidden = yes list = no location = virtual:/etc/dovecot/virtual:INDEX=~/dovecot-index prefix = virtual/ separator = / type = private } passdb { args = /etc/dovecot/dovecot-sql.conf.ext driver = sql } plugin { autocreate = Trash autocreate2 = Spam autocreate3 = Sent autocreate4 = Drafts quota = maildir quota_rule2 = Trash:ignore quota_rule3 = Deleted Items:ignore quota_rule4 = Spam:ignore quota_warning = storage=95%% /etc/dovecot/quota-warning.sh 95 quota_warning2 = storage=80%% /etc/dovecot/quota-warning.sh 80 } postmaster_address = postmaster@olypen.com protocols = imap pop3 quota_full_tempfail = yes rejection_reason = Your message to <%t> with subject of <%s> was automatically rejected:%n%r rejection_subject = Mailbox Full: %s sendmail_path = /usr/sbin/exim service auth { unix_listener /var/spool/exim/auth-userdb { group = mail mode = 0666 user = } } service imap-login { inet_listener imap { port = 143 } process_min_avail = 5 service_count = 0 vsz_limit = 134217728 } service imap { process_limit = 1024 vsz_limit = 1073741824 } service pop3-login { inet_listener pop3 { port = 110 } process_min_avail = 5 service_count = 0 vsz_limit = 134217728 } service pop3 { process_limit = 1024 vsz_limit = 1073741824 } ssl = no userdb { driver = prefetch } valid_chroot_dirs = /mail verbose_proctitle = yes protocol pop3 { mail_max_userip_connections = 1 mail_plugins = $mail_plugins virtual pop3_client_workarounds = outlook-no-nuls oe-ns-eoh pop3_enable_last = no pop3_lock_session = no pop3_logout_format = retr=%r/%b, del=%d/%m, size=%s pop3_no_flag_updates = yes pop3_reuse_xuidl = no pop3_save_uidl = yes pop3_uidl_format = %08Xu%08Xv } protocol lda { auth_socket_path = auth-master info_log_path = /var/log/dovecot/deliver.log log_path = /var/log/dovecot/deliver.log mail_plugins = quota } protocol imap { imap_client_workarounds = delay-newmail netscape-eoh tb-extra-mailbox-sep imap_idle_notify_interval = 120 s imap_logout_format = bytes=%i/%o imap_max_line_length = 65536 mail_max_userip_connections = 15 mail_plugins = $mail_plugins imap_quota autocreate virtual }