<html><head></head><body dir="auto" style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">I am stuck enabling LMTP so that I can use Sieve rules. I have a postfix -> dovecot setup on Ubuntu. I am using virtual users with a SQL backend for virtual_users, password maps, and maildir. <div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I have searched for a solution and implemented everything I have read. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I do not understand why lmtp is trying to go to /var/run/dovecot/auth-userdb (file does not exist). Everything works until I uncomment "<font color="#000000" face="Menlo" class=""><span style="font-size: 11px;" class="">virtual_transport = lmtp:unix:private/dovecot-lmtp</span><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 11px;" class="">”</span><span style="font-size: 11px;" class=""> in postfix/main.cf</span></font></div><div class=""><font color="#000000" face="Menlo" class=""><span style="font-size: 11px;" class=""><br class=""></span></font></div><div class=""><font color="#000000" face="Menlo" class=""><span style="font-size: 11px;" class="">Anyone have a solution? </span></font></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Here is the lmtp error with surrounding messages</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Menlo; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">Oct 4 00:37:29 mmp-mail dovecot: lmtp(<a href="mailto:info@domain.com" class="">info@domain.com</a>)<268290><UpizKIlReV8CGAQA9daSvw>: Debug: auth-master: userdb lookup(<a href="mailto:info@domain.com" class="">info@domain.com</a>): Started userdb lookup</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Menlo; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">Oct 4 00:37:29 mmp-mail dovecot: lmtp(<a href="mailto:info@domain.com" class="">info@domain.com</a>)<268290><UpizKIlReV8CGAQA9daSvw>: Debug: auth-master: conn unix:/var/run/dovecot//auth-userdb: Connecting</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Menlo; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">Oct 4 00:37:29 mmp-mail dovecot: lmtp(<a href="mailto:info@domain.com" class="">info@domain.com</a>)<268290><UpizKIlReV8CGAQA9daSvw>: Error: auth-master: userdb lookup(<a href="mailto:info@domain.com" class="">info@domain.com</a>): connect(/var/run/dovecot//auth-userdb) failed: No such file or directory</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Menlo; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">Oct 4 00:37:29 mmp-mail dovecot: lmtp(<a href="mailto:info@domain.com" class="">info@domain.com</a>)<268290><UpizKIlReV8CGAQA9daSvw>: Debug: auth-master: userdb lookup(<a href="mailto:info@domain.com" class="">info@domain.com</a>): Userdb lookup failed</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Menlo; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">Oct 4 00:37:29 mmp-mail dovecot: lmtp(268290): Error: lmtp-server: conn unix:pid=268289,uid=129 [1]: rcpt <a href="mailto:info@domain.com" class="">info@domain.com</a>: Failed to lookup user <a href="mailto:info@domain.com" class="">info@domain.com</a>: Internal error occurred. Refer to server log for more information.</span></div></div><div class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">I do see "</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Menlo; font-size: 11px; font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures;" class="">auth_socket_path = </span><span style="font-family: Menlo; font-size: 11px; font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures; color: rgb(202, 51, 35);" class=""><b class="">auth-u</b></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Menlo; font-size: 11px; font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures;" class="">serdb” in doveconf output</span></div><div class=""><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Menlo; font-size: 11px; font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures;" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div class=""><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Menlo; font-size: 11px; font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures;" class="">In 10-master.conf (</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Menlo; font-size: 11px;" class="">-rw-r--r-- 1 root root</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Menlo; font-size: 11px;" class=""> </span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Menlo; font-size: 11px;" class="">3784 Oct</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Menlo; font-size: 11px;" class=""> </span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Menlo; font-size: 11px;" class="">4 00:26 10-master.conf)</span></div><div class=""><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Menlo; font-size: 11px; font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures;" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div class=""><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Menlo; font-size: 11px; font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures;" class=""><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">service auth {</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(50, 244, 241);" class=""><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class=""> </span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class="">unix_listener auth-userdb {</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class=""> path = /var/spool/postfix/private/auth</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class=""> mode = 0660</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class=""> user = postfix</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class=""> group = postfix</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(50, 244, 241);" class=""><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class=""> </span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class="">}</span></div><div class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">}</span></div><div class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">In auth-sql-conf.ext (</span>-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 785 Oct 3 22:39 auth-sql.conf.ext)</div><div class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class=""><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">userdb {</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class=""> driver = sql</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class=""> args = /etc/dovecot/dovecot-sql.conf.ext</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">}</span></div><div class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">In dovecot-sql.conf.ext (</span>-rw-r----- 1 root dovecot 6086 Oct 3 22:37 dovecot-sql.conf.ext)</div><div class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class=""><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">user_query = \</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class=""> SELECT email as user, 150 AS uid, 150 AS gid 'maildir:/home/mail/'||maildir as mail \</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class=""> FROM virtual_mailbox_maps WHERE email = '%u'</span></div><div class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class=""><br class=""></span></div></span></div></span></div></span></div></div></body></html>