Ok, i don't have any auth-master socket in /var/run/dovecot/, and i never installed the dovecot-postfix package. I'm think it will trash my existing config.
On Wed, Jan 13, 2010 at 2:53 PM, Pascal Volk <[email protected]> wrote: > On 01/13/2010 11:48 AM Steffen Kaiser wrote: >> On Wed, 13 Jan 2010, Per Laine wrote: >> >>> in dovecot-deliver.log that says "Can't connect to auth server at >>> /var/spool/postfix/private/dovecot: Permission denied" Im using >> >> IMHO the error message is very descriptive: >> "Permission denied" :) >> >>> socket: >>> type: listen >>> client: >>> path: /var/spool/postfix/private/auth >>> mode: 432 >>> user: postfix >>> group: postfix >> >> IMHO Postfix executes deliver with system user privilegues, hence, >> "postfix" is not correct. The permission must allow all your system users >> to connect to this socket. > > This client socket is used by Postfix for 'SMTP-AUth'. Deliver, > Dovecot's LDA, prefers the Unix-domain socket from the auth-master. > (e.g. http://wiki.dovecot.org/HowTo/PostfixAndDovecotSASL) > > But the error message in the original mail mentions the socket at > /var/spool/postfix/private/dovecot, and this is not the configured one. > > Per is using Unbuntu Linux, (see `dovecot -n` output in the first mail.) > Per, maybe you've got a funny called file: > /etc/dovecot/dovecot-postfix.conf. If so, edit this file, as mentioned > in your /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf > > > Regards, > Pascal > -- > The trapper recommends today: [email protected] > -- Mvh Per Laine Tel. 0703 - 82 50 84 [email protected]
