[Dovecot] warning: connect to transport dovecot: No such file or directory

David Koski david at kosmosisland.com
Tue Feb 19 18:37:33 EET 2008


On Tuesday 19 February 2008 02:02, Uldis Pakuls wrote:
> David Koski wrote:
> > I have installed postfix, dovecot, mysql as per:
> >
> > http://wiki.dovecot.org/HowTo/DovecotLDAPostfixAdminMySQL
> >
> > ..on Debian Etch.  I thought mailboxes were created by postfixadmin or
> > postfix but I only get an error:
> >
> > warning: connect to transport dovecot: No such file or directory
> >
> > ..in the postfix log.  No /var/vmail/example.com is created.  After
> > creating the domain directory and user directory, applying correct
> > ownership, still it made no difference.  I checked my main.cf:
> >
> > virtual_mailbox_base = /var/vmail
>
> "Connect to transport dovecot: No such file or directory:"
> Check postfix's master.cf - search for line (transport definition)
> "dovecot" - correct path to dovecot's deliver binaries.

For the record, the dovecot declration in master.cf started with a space and 
was ignored.

Thanks!
David Koski
david at kosmosisland.com

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