[Dovecot] Permission problem with LDA and dovecot 2.2.1

[Noel Butler]

On Mon, 2013-05-06 at 20:24 +0200, Tobi wrote:

> Hello list
> 
> today I built dovecot 2.2.1 from sources. But I have permission problems 
> with LDA
> The "normal" imap part works fine, users can login and see their boxes.
> deliver is called as LDA from postfix master.cf as follows
> <<
> dovecot unix    -       n       n       -       -       pipe
>   flags=DRhu user=vmail:vmail argv=/usr/local/libexec/dovecot/deliver -f 
> ${sender} -d ${user}@${nexthop}


I'd change deliver to dovecot-lda  , at present IIRC its a symlink, so
it might "go away" one day, otherwise, that's fine.



> May  6 18:37:59 nordkap dovecot: lda: Error: userdb lookup: 
> connect(/var/run/dovecot/auth-userdb) failed: Connection refused



> 
> For me it looks odd because the auth-userdb is defined as
> <<
> base_dir = /usr/local/var/run/dovecot/
> service auth {
>    unix_listener auth-userdb {
>      mode = 0777
>      user = vmail
>      group = vmail
>    }


 777?  it should be 0600, however, the problem might be easier to tell
with output of  dovecot -n


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