Ah I should have checked this before - line before:
2012-02-11T14:22:54+00:00 xx dovecot: director: Error:
connect(/var/run/dovecot//auth-userdb) failed: Permission denied
This is because the director is running as user dovecot; but that file is owned
root.root permissions 0600. What would you suggest doing? Setting that socket
0660 is the obvious solution but perhaps there is a more secure way you would
recommend eg chown dovecot? I'm guessing this would also need updating in the
documentation as afaik our setup should be pretty standard. Only other relevant
piece of config:
service auth {
user = dovecot
client_limit = 15000
}
Also (perhaps this should be a new thread) but I'm not too sure the director
service would work for us. I was doing some testing yesterday & discovered that
when I restart a dovecot instance it doesn't have any persistence (eg resync
the lookup table with the other directors or do a save/restore from disk) so
you are basically starting from scratch again which would be very bad in our
setup.
Mark
