Hi all,

storing e-mails (using postfix) via dovecot-lda fails and I assume this is related with a auth_socket configuration problem. But I am at a dead end, so perhaps anybody has got a hint for me:

This is dovecot-2.0.8 on Solaris 10:

10-auth.conf and its include:

... userdb { driver = static args = uid=104 gid=104 home=/some/path/%u }

Relevant parts of 10-mail.conf:

... auth_socket_path = /var/run/dovecot/auth-userdb

Relevant parts of 10-master.conf:

...service auth { unix_listener auth-userdb { mode = 0644 user = vmail #group = } }

service auth-worker { user = root }

Relevant parts of 15-lda.conf:

... protocol lda { # Space separated list of plugins to load (default is global mail_plugins). #mail_plugins = $mail_plugins }

# ls -l /var/run/dovecot/auth-userdb srw-r--r-- 1 vmail root 0 Jan 12 15:49 /var/run/dovecot/auth-userdb

Using dovecot-lda for mail delivery or doveadm for user inquirement fails:

via debug_log_path:

Jan 12 16:04:14 auth: Debug: Loading modules from directory: /dovecot/code/dovecot-2.0.8/lib/dovecot/auth Jan 12 16:04:14 auth: Debug: passwd-file /store1/db/masterusers.passwd: Read 1 users Jan 12 16:04:14 auth: Debug: master in: USER 1 djahnke service=lda Jan 12 16:04:14 auth: Debug: password(djahnke): passdb doesn't support credential lookups Jan 12 16:04:14 auth: Debug: master out: FAIL 1 Jan 12 16:04:14 lda: Debug: auth input:

via syslog:

Jan 12 16:04:14 deliver1 dovecot: [ID 583609 local0.error] auth: Error: static(djahnke): passdb doesn't support lookups, can't verify user's existence Jan 12 16:04:14 deliver1 dovecot: [ID 583609 local0.error] lda: Error: user djahnke: Auth USER lookup failed Jan 12 16:04:14 deliver1 dovecot: [ID 583609 local0.crit] lda: Fatal: Internal error occurred. Refer to server log for more information.

When I use "allow_all_users=yes" everything works fine, so I think somehow the communication with the socket fails. I cannot see what I have missed :-(

Any suggestions what I should look for / configure ?

Any help appreciated, cheers, Drik

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