On 6. May 2025, at 12.13, Odhiambo Washington via dovecot <dovecot@dovecot.org> 
wrote:
> 
> Then I created my auth-sql.conf.ext shown above.
> What I realized then is that the dovecot/auth service doesn't seem to be
> running. Not sure why.

It's only started when the first auth lookup is done. You could test also with 
"doveadm auth lookup" command what happens, and it should start the auth 
process then also.

> May 06 12:02:20 pop3-login: Info: Login aborted: Logged out (auth service
> reported temporary failure

This again seems like there should be an error logged.

> `doveadm log errors` gives no output.

Well, that's weird..

> Looking at https://doc.dovecot.org/2.4.1/core/admin/running.html, and 
> comparing
> with a system where I have installed Dovecot 2.4.1:
> 
> root@mail:/etc/dovecot/conf.d# ps auxw|grep "dovecot"
> root        9739  0.0  0.0   8872  4816 ?        Ss   14:47   0:00 /usr/sbin/
> dovecot -F
> root        9741  0.0  0.0   5324  3280 ?        S    14:47   0:00 dovecot/
> anvil
> root        9742  0.0  0.0   5428  3256 ?        S    14:47   0:00 dovecot/log
> root        9743  0.0  0.1  51976 10248 ?        S    14:47   0:00 dovecot/
> config

This is expected at startup.

> On an system running 2.3.21, I get:
...

That seems to be actually serving clients, so more processes have started up.

> Is it normal that the dovecot/auth is not listed as a running service for
> 2.4.1?

Yes, and it's the same for 2.3 when starting up (unless you have changed 
process_min_avail settings).

> info_log_path = /var/log/dovecot.log

Set also log_path = /var/log/dovecot.log - any errors logged there then?


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