[Dovecot] Connection refused userdb lookup ..dovecot/auth-userdb

[Steffen Kaiser]

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On Tue, 1 Apr 2014, Simon wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 31, 2014 at 7:37 PM, Steffen Kaiser <
> skdovecot at smail.inf.fh-brs.de> wrote:
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>> On Mon, 31 Mar 2014, Simon wrote:
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>>  On 3/24/2014 7:10 PM, Simon <greminn at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Mar 13 09:55:44 vmail1 dovecot: lda: Error: userdb lookup:
>>>>>>>> connect(/usr/local/dovecot/var/run/dovecot/auth-userdb)
>>>>>>>> failed: Connection refused

>> What's the output of:
>>
>> lsof -c dovecot|grep auth-userdb
>>
> [root at vmail1 ~]# lsof -c dovecot|grep auth-userdb
> dovecot 3147 root   38u  unix 0xffff88004fce0680      0t0  24739
> /var/run/dovecot/auth-userdb

Dovecot is configured to use /var/run/dovecot/auth-userdb whereas your LDA 
uses /usr/local/dovecot/var/run/dovecot/auth-userdb . You do not have 
symlinks to merge both locations, do you?

Check, why the Dovecot LDA is using another config file.

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Steffen Kaiser
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