[Dovecot] need help with dovecot-lda

[Andreas Meyer]

Andreas Meyer <anmeyer at anup.de> wrote:

> > Well, that looks OK to me; but the only way to test it is to manually
> > run dovecot-lda as vmail. Is there an auth-userdb socket in your dovecot
> > sockets directory? Does it have the right permissions?
> 
> No, no such socket in /var/run/dovecot

I just found out the sockets of dovecot reside in /usr/var/run/dovecot

# ll
insgesamt 16
srw------- 1 root    root        0 15. Dez 11:14 anvil
srw------- 1 root    root        0 15. Dez 11:14 anvil-auth-penalty
srw------- 1 root    root        0 15. Dez 11:14 auth-client
srw------- 1 dovecot root        0 15. Dez 11:14 auth-login
srw------- 1 root    root        0 15. Dez 11:14 auth-master
srw------- 1 vmail   vmail       0 15. Dez 11:14 auth-userdb
srw------- 1 dovecot root        0 15. Dez 11:14 auth-worker
srw------- 1 root    root        0 15. Dez 11:14 config
srw------- 1 root    root        0 15. Dez 11:14 dict
srw------- 1 root    root        0 15. Dez 11:14 director-admin
srw-rw-rw- 1 root    root        0 15. Dez 11:14 dns-client
srw------- 1 root    root        0 15. Dez 11:14 doveadm-server
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root    root       29 15. Dez 11:14 dovecot.conf -> /usr/etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf
drwxr-xr-x 2 root    root     4096  8. Jun 2012  empty
srw-rw-rw- 1 root    root        0 15. Dez 11:14 indexer
srw------- 1 dovecot root        0 15. Dez 11:14 indexer-worker
srw------- 1 root    root        0 15. Dez 11:14 ipc
srw-rw-rw- 1 root    root        0 15. Dez 11:14 lmtp
srw------- 1 root    root        0 15. Dez 11:14 log-errors
drwxr-x--- 2 root    dovenull 4096 15. Dez 11:14 login
-rw------- 1 root    root        6 15. Dez 11:14 master.pid
-rw-r--r-- 1 root    root       37 15. Dez 11:14 mounts
srw------- 1 root    root        0 15. Dez 11:14 replication-notify
prw------- 1 root    root        0 15. Dez 11:14 replication-notify-fifo
srw------- 1 dovecot root        0 15. Dez 11:14 replicator
srw------- 1 root    root        0 15. Dez 11:14 stats
prw------- 1 root    root        0 15. Dez 11:14 stats-mail

the auth-userdb is there and vmail is the owner. What problem do I have
that dovecot-lda does not find the users?

Andreas