I'm guessing this is the most significant issue: Jun 3 16:22:33 retr01 dovecot: director: Fatal: No inet_listeners defined for director service (for standalone keep director_servers empty)
What confuses me, is that not only do I have this in my config: service director { fifo_listener login/proxy-notify { mode = 0666 } inet_listener { port = 2888 } [...] but I can telnet to port 2888, and I can see that it's bound to the correct instance of Dovecot (though the first time I telnet to that port, I get the connection closed right away (this lines up with the error about inet_listeners); the second time, it doesn't close): [root@retr01 ~]# telnet localhost 2888 Trying 127.0.0.1... Connected to localhost. Escape character is '^]'. Connection closed by foreign host. [root@retr01 ~]# telnet localhost 2888 Trying 127.0.0.1... Connected to localhost. Escape character is '^]'. The default config (without any 'service director {}' section) for the other (backend) instance gives me (in doveconf -c /etc/dovecot-main.conf): service director { [...] service_count = 0 type = unix_listener director-admin { group = mode = 0600 user = } unix_listener login/director { group = mode = 00 user = } [...] Do I need to set mode to 00 for director-admin (again, on the *non* director instance) as well (I think I've seen something about this on the list). Does anyone have any suggestions, especially anyone who has a similar setup working on 2.0.x? w