[Dovecot] Errors after install with non-standard prefix

Timo Sirainen tss at iki.fi
Mon Feb 2 19:25:52 EET 2009


On Mon, 2009-02-02 at 14:43 +0300, Dmitry Samersoff wrote:
> Error: dict: dict client: Broken handshake
..
> base_dir: /zhome/var/run/dovecot
..
> login_dir: /zhome/var/run/dovecot

These can't be the same! Just don't specify login_dir at all, it'll use
the default which is under base_dir.

> login_user: exim
> login_chroot: no
..
> mail_uid: exim
> mail_gid: exim

These look suspicious. Are you going to run entire Dovecot under exim
user? If not, login_user can't be the same as mail_uid.

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