[Dovecot] Can't connect to auth server

[Steffen Kaiser]

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On Sat, 9 May 2009, Phill Edwards wrote:

>> - 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

Bye,

- -- 
Steffen Kaiser
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