Hmm: according to the documentation, the default is "imap pop3 lmtp"
But my installation (2.3.20, Alpine apk) for some reason only ran "imap" by default G > On 5 Jan 2023, at 21:27, Gerben Wierda <gerben.wie...@rna.nl> wrote: > > Boy do I feel stupid. > > protocols was not set in the new version's dovecot.conf. And default it only > contains imap. My old server had an override in dovecot.conf and I copied > conf.d over but started with afresh dovecot.conf, so lmtp was missing. > > G > >> On 5 Jan 2023, at 18:39, Gerben Wierda <gerben.wie...@rna.nl >> <mailto:gerben.wie...@rna.nl>> wrote: >> >>> On 5 Jan 2023, at 18:17, dove...@ptld.com <mailto:dove...@ptld.com> wrote: >>> >>>> service lmtp { >>>> inet_listener lmtp { >>>> address = 127.0.0.1 >>>> port = 24 >>>> } >>> >>>> unix_listener /var/spool/postfix/private/lmtp { >>>> mode = 0660 >>>> user = postfix >>>> group = postfix >>>> } >>> >>> >>> Looks like you are activating both a socket and a port. Im not sure what >>> dovecot does, does it bind to both or does it pick one and ignore the >>> other. You only need to use one or the other. >>> >>> And what does your postfix side look like? Where is postfix trying to >>> connect? To the socket or the port? For using a socket postfix would look >>> something like: >>> >>> virtual_transport = lmtp:unix:private/lmtp >>> >> >> I removed the tcp port for now. >> >> / # doveconf service/lmtp >> service lmtp { >> chroot = >> client_limit = 1 >> drop_priv_before_exec = no >> executable = lmtp >> extra_groups = $default_internal_group >> group = >> idle_kill = 0 >> privileged_group = >> process_limit = 0 >> process_min_avail = 0 >> protocol = lmtp >> service_count = 0 >> type = >> unix_listener /var/spool/postfix/private/dovecot-lmtp { >> group = mail >> mode = 0660 >> user = postfix >> } >> unix_listener lmtp { >> group = >> mode = 0666 >> user = >> } >> user = >> vsz_limit = 18446744073709551615 B >> } >> >> postfix config: >> >> mailbox_transport = lmtp:unix:private/dovecot-lmtp >> virtual_transport = lmtp:unix:private/dovecot-lmtp >> >> I had confused postfix's own lmtp socket with dovecot's, which was >> originally named dovecot-lmtp but when it wasn't created I though my config >> was wrong. >> >> What seems to happen is that /var/spool/postfix/private/dovecot-lmtp isn't >> created by dovecot at launch, but /var/spool/postfix/private/auth is >> >> G >
