[Dovecot] using dovecot deliver

[Per Laine]

Ok, i don't have any auth-master socket in /var/run/dovecot/, and i
never installed the dovecot-postfix package. I'm think it will trash
my existing config.

On Wed, Jan 13, 2010 at 2:53 PM, Pascal Volk
<user+dovecot at localhost.localdomain.org> wrote:
> On 01/13/2010 11:48 AM Steffen Kaiser wrote:
>> On Wed, 13 Jan 2010, Per Laine wrote:
>>
>>> in dovecot-deliver.log that says "Can't connect to auth server at
>>> /var/spool/postfix/private/dovecot: Permission denied" Im using
>>
>> IMHO the error message is very descriptive:
>> "Permission denied" :)
>>
>>>  socket:
>>>    type: listen
>>>    client:
>>>      path: /var/spool/postfix/private/auth
>>>      mode: 432
>>>      user: postfix
>>>      group: postfix
>>
>> IMHO Postfix executes deliver with system user privilegues, hence,
>> "postfix" is not correct. The permission must allow all your system users
>> to connect to this socket.
>
> This client socket is used by Postfix for 'SMTP-AUth'. Deliver,
> Dovecot's LDA, prefers the Unix-domain socket from the auth-master.
> (e.g. http://wiki.dovecot.org/HowTo/PostfixAndDovecotSASL)
>
> But the error message in the original mail mentions the socket at
> /var/spool/postfix/private/dovecot, and this is not the configured one.
>
> Per is using Unbuntu Linux, (see `dovecot -n` output in the first mail.)
> Per, maybe you've got a funny called file:
> /etc/dovecot/dovecot-postfix.conf. If so, edit this file, as mentioned
> in your /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf
>
>
> Regards,
> Pascal
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>



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