On Wed, 2010-04-07 at 12:08 +0200, Cieslak, Andreas wrote: AFAIR Dovecot does not create that socket: > /var/run/dovecot/auth-master Some other program creates it - so either tell that other program to create the socket where you want it now, or tell Dovecot where that socket actually is.
I can't say for sure that is your error, but if the socket is not where Dovecot is looking, it's going to complain about an auth issue. Also, I would be surprised if the new version will start, if you already have an old version running - sanity would say that is a bad thing to try and do.
