Andreas Meyer wrote: > > > hm, what does dovecot-lda do? I think it tries to connect to > > > /usr/var/run/dovecot/auth-userdb ? > > > > Try to trace the open syscalls of dovecot-lda and its children: > > > > strace -f -eopen /usr/libexec/dovecot/dovecot-lda -f anme...@anup.de -d > > anme...@anup.de > > > > # strace -f -eopen /usr/libexec/dovecot/dovecot-lda -f anme...@anup.de -d > anme...@anup.de > open("/usr/lib/dovecot/tls/i686/sse2/libdovecot-lda.so.0", O_RDONLY) = -1 > ENOENT (No such file or directory) > open("/usr/lib/dovecot/tls/i686/libdovecot-lda.so.0", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT > (No such file or directory) > open("/usr/lib/dovecot/tls/sse2/libdovecot-lda.so.0", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT > (No such file or directory) > open("/usr/lib/dovecot/tls/libdovecot-lda.so.0", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No > such file or directory) > open("/usr/lib/dovecot/i686/sse2/libdovecot-lda.so.0", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT > (No such file or directory) > open("/usr/lib/dovecot/i686/libdovecot-lda.so.0", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No > such file or directory) > open("/usr/lib/dovecot/sse2/libdovecot-lda.so.0", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No > such file or directory) > open("/usr/lib/dovecot/libdovecot-lda.so.0", O_RDONLY) = 3 > open("/usr/lib/dovecot/libdovecot-storage.so.0", O_RDONLY) = 3 > open("/usr/lib/dovecot/libdovecot.so.0", O_RDONLY) = 3 > open("/usr/lib/dovecot/libc.so.6", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or > directory) > open("/etc/ld.so.cache", O_RDONLY) = 3 > open("/lib/libc.so.6", O_RDONLY) = 3 > open("/usr/lib/dovecot/librt.so.1", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or > directory) > open("/lib/librt.so.1", O_RDONLY) = 3 > open("/usr/lib/dovecot/libssl.so.0.9.8", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No such file > or directory) > open("/usr/lib/libssl.so.0.9.8", O_RDONLY) = 3 > open("/usr/lib/dovecot/libcrypto.so.0.9.8", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No such > file or directory) > open("/usr/lib/libcrypto.so.0.9.8", O_RDONLY) = 3 > open("/usr/lib/dovecot/libz.so.1", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or > directory) > open("/lib/libz.so.1", O_RDONLY) = 3 > open("/usr/lib/dovecot/libdl.so.2", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or > directory) > open("/lib/libdl.so.2", O_RDONLY) = 3 > open("/lib/libpthread.so.0", O_RDONLY) = 3 > open("/var/log/dovecot-lda-errors.log", > O_WRONLY|O_CREAT|O_APPEND|O_LARGEFILE, 0600) = 6 > open("/var/log/dovecot-lda.log", O_WRONLY|O_CREAT|O_APPEND|O_LARGEFILE, 0600) > = 7 > open("/usr/lib/dovecot", O_RDONLY|O_NONBLOCK|O_LARGEFILE|O_DIRECTORY) = 8 > open("/usr/lib/dovecot/lib90_sieve_plugin.so", O_RDONLY) = 8 > open("/usr/lib/dovecot/libdovecot-sieve.so.0", O_RDONLY) = 8 > open("/var/log/dovecot-lda-errors.log", > O_WRONLY|O_CREAT|O_APPEND|O_LARGEFILE, 0600) = 6 > open("/var/log/dovecot-lda.log", O_WRONLY|O_CREAT|O_APPEND|O_LARGEFILE, 0600) > = 7
Of course you will need to deliver a mail via stdin. Otherwise dovecot-lda will stall and wait for input, it doesn't even try to connect to auth-userdb. This might work: echo "foo" | strace -f -eopen /usr/libexec/dovecot/dovecot-lda -f anme...@anup.de -d anme...@anup.de Regards Daniel -- https://plus.google.com/103021802792276734820