Hi all,
I'm trying to get postfix and dovecot working nicely together to process and
store mail for both local (system) on one domain and virtual users and a few
different domains.
I've got postfix up and running quite nicely, but am having a few problems with
Dovecot. Every time postfix tried to delivery a message to a virtual user
using dovecot I get an error like the following in /var/log/mail.log:
Mar 8 21:53:58 rhy postfix/pipe[6616]: 89C94846E: to=<gr...@gregsfamily.com>,
orig_to=<g...@gregsfamily.com>, relay=dovecot, delay=8795,
delays=8794/0.01/0/0.61, dsn=4.3.0, status=deferred (temporary failure)
At the same instant, in my dovecot log I'll get this error:
deliver(gr...@gregsfamily.com): 2010-03-08 21:53:58 Error: Can't connect to
auth server at /var/run/dovecot/auth-master: Connection refused
So, I'm guessing that this is a permissions issue (somewhere) and that the
dovecot process is not able to create the file /var/run/dovecot/auth-master.
The permissions on this folder are as follows:
gr...@rhy:/etc/dovecot$ ls -al /var/run/dovecot/
total 0
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 100 2010-03-08 21:44 .
drwxr-xr-x 15 root root 660 2010-03-08 22:00 ..
srw------- 1 vmail root 0 2010-03-08 21:43 auth-master
srwxrwxrwx 1 root root 0 2010-03-08 21:43 dict-server
drwxr-x--- 2 root dovecot 60 2010-03-08 21:44 login
I've searched around for hours, found several threads describing similar
issues, but no solutions that have worked for me. If anyone is able to give me
any pointers or suggestions I would be most grateful.
My dovecot configuration is:
gr...@rhy:/etc/dovecot$ sudo dovecot -n
# 1.1.11: /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf
# OS: Linux 2.6.28-18-generic x86_64 Ubuntu 9.04 ext3
log_timestamp: %Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S
protocols: imaps pop3s imap pop3
login_dir: /var/run/dovecot/login
login_executable(default): /usr/lib/dovecot/imap-login
login_executable(imap): /usr/lib/dovecot/imap-login
login_executable(pop3): /usr/lib/dovecot/pop3-login
mail_privileged_group: mail
mail_location: maildir:/home/vmail/%d/%u
mail_debug: yes
mail_executable(default): /usr/lib/dovecot/imap
mail_executable(imap): /usr/lib/dovecot/imap
mail_executable(pop3): /usr/lib/dovecot/pop3
mail_plugin_dir(default): /usr/lib/dovecot/modules/imap
mail_plugin_dir(imap): /usr/lib/dovecot/modules/imap
mail_plugin_dir(pop3): /usr/lib/dovecot/modules/pop3
auth default:
mechanisms: plain login
user: vmail
debug: yes
debug_passwords: yes
passdb:
driver: sql
args: /etc/dovecot/dovecot-sql.conf
userdb:
driver: static
args: uid=5000 gid=5000 home=/home/vmail/%d/%n allow_all_users=yes
socket:
type: listen
client:
path: /var/spool/postfix/private/auth
mode: 432
user: postfix
group: postfix
master:
path: /var/run/dovecot/auth-master
mode: 384
user: vmail
:wq
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