- Getmail destination section looks like this: [destination] type = MDA_external path = /usr/libexec/dovecot/deliver arguments = ("-d", "maildb")
It's true that I don't have a file called auth-master. I guess I should have but until I started this dovecot-sieve work it was never a
See http://wiki.dovecot.org/LDA
"-d <username>: Destination username. If given, the user information is looked up from dovecot-auth."
You need Dovecot running and providing the auth socket, see http://wiki.dovecot.org/MainConfig?highlight=auth-master
Thanks for your reply, but I still don't understand how to fix my issue. I had a look at the wiki page and it says: "auth_socket_path = /var/run/dovecot/auth-master UNIX socket path to master authentication server to find users."
The file auth-master doesn't exist anywhere on my system, and the wiki doesn't tell me how to create it or what its contents should look like. So I still don't understand how I make dovecot provide the auth socket.
Regards, Phill