On Tue, Oct 1, 2013 at 1:22 PM, Steve Blinkhorn <[email protected]> wrote:
> Perhaps someone with experience of this would offer some advice - the > various wikis and helpful howtos I have found so far all start with > different assumptions, and there's the occasional "here's a sample > script, but it's in an obsolete format, so don;t expect it to be of > much help". > > The basic aim, as before, is to graft dovecot on to an existing email > server to allow remote mail access from smartphones. I'm trying to > get dovecot running, but when I start it up I get: > > Fatal: Error reading configuration: Invalid settings: No services > defined > > Because the configuration files are legion, it's no easy matter to > track down where the offending (lack of?) settings are located. > > From postfix I get: > > Oct 1 18:14:53 body postfix/smtpd[25677]: warning: SASL: Connect to > /var/spool/ postfix/private/auth failed: No such file or directory > > this is, I presume, a Unix socket that is not getting created. > > I'm hoping these two errors are sufficiently diagnostic for me not to > have to bother the list with what I take to be consequential errors. > > > -- > Steve Blinkhorn <[email protected]> > > I have this in my postfix config: main.cf:queue_directory = /var/spool/postfix main.cf:smtpd_sasl_path = private/auth main.cf:smtpd_sasl_auth_enable = yes I don't seem to have anything changed from the defaults in dovecot except in /usr/pkg/etc/dovecot/conf.d/10-master.conf I don't remember exactly what I did, but ihave this: # Postfix smtp-auth unix_listener /var/spool/postfix/private/auth { mode = 0666 }
