[Dovecot] Can't connect to auth server

[Phill Edwards]

> I'm trying to phase out procmail and move to dovecot-sieve instead. It
> ain't proving easy. I'll describe my setup:
>
> - Centos 5.2 box with dovecot 1.1.4 and dovecot-sieve 1.1.6 from ATrpms.
>
> - A single user account is used to store all our email (the account is
> called maildb).
>
> - Getmail is being used to fetch the email from various ISP mailboxes.
> I want to deliver mail to different folders in maildb's Maildir/
> depending on who the email is addressed to (the procmail recipes
> currently do that).
>
> - Getmail destination section looks like this:
>     [destination]
>     type = MDA_external
>     path = /usr/libexec/dovecot/deliver
>     arguments = ("-d", "maildb")
>     allow_root_commands = true
>
> - When I run getmail I get this error in dovecot.log:
> deliver(maildb): May 04 22:15:26 Error: Can't connect to auth server
> at /var/run/dovecot/auth-master: No such file or directory
>
> 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
> problem. I have no idea what that file should look like. As I
> installed from binary RPMs I would have thought one would have come
> with the install.
>
> Can anyone help?

Anyone? I'm pretty stuck if I can't resolve this :(

Regards,
Phill