[Dovecot] Permission problem with LDA and dovecot 2.2.1

[Ben Morrow]

At  6PM +0200 on  7/05/13 you (Tobi) wrote:
> 
> I tried with removing the base_dir definition from my config, restartet 
> dovecot and checked with the commands you provided below:
> <<
> root at nordkap:~# doveconf -d base_dir
> base_dir = /usr/local/var/run/dovecot
> root at nordkap:~# doveconf base_dir
> base_dir = /usr/local/var/run/dovecot
> root at nordkap:~# su vmail -s /bin/sh -c "doveconf base_dir"
> base_dir = /usr/local/var/run/dovecot
>  >>
> for me it seems that all is build with /usr/local

OK, that's odd. I was wondering if you had some permission problem which
was stopping the lda from reading the config file, but apparently not.

> But after removing the symlink and restarting dovecot I get the errors again
> <<
> May  7 17:47:57 nordkap dovecot: lda: Error: userdb lookup: 
> connect(/var/run/dovecot/auth-userdb) failed: No such file or directory
> May  7 17:47:57 nordkap dovecot: lda: Fatal: Internal error occurred. 
> Refer to server log for more information.
>  >>

Are you sure you're running the right copy of dovecot-lda? I think you
mentioned xthread that you have a Debian-provided version installed as
well?

Ben