[Dovecot] 2.0.5 Error: Timeout waiting for handshake from auth server.

[Timo Sirainen]

On Thu, 2010-10-21 at 10:57 +0300, Veiko Kukk wrote:

> Oct 21 09:52:48 imap-login: Error: Timeout waiting for handshake from 
> auth server. my pid=13338, input bytes=0

auth process is hanging or imap-login is connecting to wrong server.

First try deleting everything from Dovecot's base_dir (/var/run/dovecot/
or something).

If that doesn't help, show your doveconf -n output.

Also once started, show "ps aux|grep dovecot" output and "strace -tt -p
`pidof auth`" output for a few seconds.