>have you checked the location of your mysql socket?! /var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock
>what about posix? Total novice here on linux. Not sure what that means? >has dbmail/postfix the right to reach that socket file if it exists? /var/run/mysqld is owned by mysql:mysql and the permissions are drwxr-xr-x How do I give dbmail and postfix permission to access the file >does mysql run? DBMA can connect. phpMyAdmin can connect. I can connect from a command line. Ps aux | grep mysqld shows it running. Yep it's running. >have you double checked your dbmail.conf? Dbmail.conf has: Host=localhost User=xxx Pass=xxx Db=xxx TRACE_LEVEL=1 The x's are of course replaced with accurate information for accessing the database. I can connect from a command with the same username and pass. Under POP the effective user is root and the effective group is mysql. Same with Imap. What should they be set to? Clearly my issue is connecting to mysql from postfix and dbmail. Regards, Nate
