[Dovecot] imap: Error: net_connect_unix(/.../auth-master) failed: Invalid argument

[Joan Picanyol i Puig]

* Timo Sirainen <tss at iki.fi> [20130108 02:17]:
> On Sat, 2013-01-05 at 21:51 +0100, Joan Picanyol i Puig wrote:
> 
> > I'm unable to get past the subject error trying to setup dovecot 2.1.10
> > on FreeBSD 6.4: right after login the server closes the connection
> > (testing with telnet)
> 
> I think this is the reason:
> 
> 	if (i_strocpy(sa.un.sun_path, path, sizeof(sa.un.sun_path)) < 0) {
> 		/* too long path */
> 		errno = EINVAL;
> 
> Your path is longer than possible. This patch should make it clearer in
> future: http://hg.dovecot.org/dovecot-2.1/rev/e4cc3f2b66e3

Thanks, changing base_dir did the trick. I wonder why though, since
both PATH_MAX and FILENAME_MAX are defined as 1024 on my system...

tks
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pica