Yep, postfix is installed:

mailserver:/etc/postfix# postconf -h mail_owner postfix

Thanks, Doug

----- Original Message ----- From: "Pascal Volk" <user+dovecot@localhost.localdomain.org> To: "Douglas M. Stanley" <doug@technologixllc.com> Cc: "Dovecot Mailing List" <dovecot@dovecot.org> Sent: Friday, March 13, 2009 4:37:07 PM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern Subject: Re: [Dovecot] Problem with sasl auth with postfix...

On 13.03.2009 21:01 Douglas M. Stanley wrote:

Hello list,

I'm running into some problems, and I couldn't find any info about this anywhere on the net.

I recently set up a new debian lenny machine, and used my notes from the last debian etch machine I set up, which basically is for postfix + dovecot for sasl auth.

On my old etch box, in the dovecot.conf, in the auth default section, I have a socket listen { client { path = /var/spool/postfix/private/auth mode = 0660 user = postfix group = postfix } }

However, if I use the same config on my lenny setup, dovecot fails to start, and I see this in my logs:

Mar 13 19:16:30 mailserver dovecot: Dovecot v1.0.15 starting up Mar 13 19:16:30 mailserver dovecot: auth(default): User doesn't exist: postfix Mar 13 19:16:30 mailserver dovecot: Auth process died too early - shutting down Mar 13 19:16:30 mailserver dovecot: child 4623 (auth) returned error 89

Now if I comment out the user and group lines, it works fine, but the socket is owned by root, and so I have to change the mode line so that it's world readable in order for postfix to use it.

The version of dovecot in etch is: 1.0.rc15-2etch4 and the version in lenny is: 1.0.15-2.3

Any ideas why this might be happening? Did the syntax to do this change between those versions? Any input? I guess I don't mind leaving it world readable, but I wasted an entire morning trying everything to get it to work, so I guess I'm hoping some one atleast has an answer as to why it doesn't work.

Is Postfix installed on this system? If so, what shows the command postconf -h mail_owner

Regards, Pascal

The trapper recommends today: c01dcofe.0907221@localdomain.org

----- "Pascal Volk" <user+dovecot@localhost.localdomain.org> wrote:

On 13.03.2009 21:40 Douglas M. Stanley wrote:

...

Yep, postfix is installed:

mailserver:/etc/postfix# postconf -h mail_owner postfix

Please don't top post.

I've got no clue what it may be. Please provide the output from dovecot -n.

Here it is...

auth default: mechanisms: plain login digest-md5 cram-md5 user: dovecot-auth debug: yes process_size: 64 passdb: driver: sql args: /etc/dovecot/dovecot-sql.conf userdb: driver: sql args: /etc/dovecot/dovecot-sql.conf userdb: driver: prefetch socket: type: listen client: path: /var/spool/postfix/private/auth mode: 438

Regards, Pascal

The trapper recommends today: c01dcofe.0907221@localdomain.org

Thanks, Doug