[Dovecot] Master requested auth for nonexisting client %d

[Magnus Holmgren]

Peter Franck wrote:
> Magnus Holmgren wrote:
> 
>> Magnus Holmgren wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> You can use the --group= parameter to give imap-login what the master 
>>> process wants ("default/imap", I guess).
>>>
> 
> Thanks, Magnus!

Glad to be of help!

> That was the bit I was missing since I'm trying out dovecot for the very 
> first time.
> 
> Unfortunately I have one more (newbie) problem : I am now able to 
> authenticate against dovecot, but i cannot get any mail from it.
> 
> Logfile:
> 
> ---8<---
> Feb 20 00:31:20 office dovecot: auth(default): client in: AUTH    1 
> PLAIN    service=IMAP    secured    lip=192.168.23.1    rip=192.168.23.42
> Feb 20 00:31:20 office dovecot: auth(default): client out: CONT    1   
> Feb 20 00:31:20 office dovecot: auth(default): client in: CONT    1 
> AHZpYwBzeXNpbnQyMQ==
> Feb 20 00:31:20 office dovecot: auth(default): client out: OK    1    
> user=vic
> Feb 20 00:31:20 office dovecot: auth(default): master in: REQUEST    
> 1    2    1
> Feb 20 00:31:20 office dovecot: auth(default): Master requested auth for 
> nonexisting client 2
> --->8---
> 
> Any idea?
> Peter
> 

Did you upgrade from 1.0-test59 to 1.0-test62 (or possibly 61 or 60) 
between your posts? I hope you haven't mixed binaries from different 
versions, since that might cause strange errors.

> (BTW is there a search index over the mailing list archives somewhere? 
> Google doesn't know its contents)

I have no problem googling through http://dovecot.org/list/dovecot/. And 
there's also the IMAP archive at imap://anonymous@dovecot.org.

Chiao
Magnus