I'm upgrading my configuration to use director and lmtp for delivery. (doveconf -n at end of the mail). I use the same config for auth on mail backends and see no errors.

My setup seem to work nicely but i have some auth process crashing when using lmtp protocol.

Everything is working a sexpected then i've got 5-6 errors like this in logs and a crach of the auth process:

dovecot: lmtp(47269): Error: passdb lookup(_mail_): Disconnected unexpectedly pid 47406 (auth), uid 143: exited on signal 11

Actually, i didn't configure to core dump.

Do you think seting up lmtp protocol to static auth adding something like folow will be better for this problem?

protocol lmtp { passdb { args = proxy=y nopassword=y driver = static } }

Please note that my configuration is actually listening on inet fot LMTP but that the goal is to configure postfix on the same server and switch to socket, this expain the configuration of the service auth to provide a socket to postfix.

Here is my director config:

% doveconf -n

2.2.6: /usr/local/etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf

OS: FreeBSD 8.4-RELEASE-p4 amd64

auth_cache_negative_ttl = 0 auth_cache_size = 16 M auth_mechanisms = plain login auth_verbose = yes auth_verbose_passwords = sha1 default_process_limit = 4000 director_mail_servers = 192.168.16.1 192.168.16.2 192.168.16.3 director_servers = 192.168.16.4 192.168.16.5 192.168.16.6 disable_plaintext_auth = no doveadm_port = 24245 info_log_path = syslog instance_name = director lmtp_proxy = yes mail_debug = yes managesieve_notify_capability = mailto managesieve_sieve_capability = fileinto reject envelope encoded-character vacation subaddress comparator-i;ascii-numeric relational regex imap4flags copy include variables body enotify environment mailbox date ihave passdb { args = /usr/local/etc/dovecot/dovecot-ldap.conf.ext driver = ldap } plugin { mail_log_events = delete undelete expunge copy mailbox_delete mailbox_rename mail_log_fields = uid box msgid size } service anvil { client_limit = 12003 } service auth-worker { process_min_avail = 10 user = $default_internal_user } service auth { client_limit = 16000 unix_listener /var/spool/postfix/private/auth { group = postfix mode = 0666 user = postfix } unix_listener auth-userdb { mode = 0666 user = $default_internal_user } user = $default_internal_user } service director { fifo_listener login/proxy-notify { mode = 0666 } inet_listener { address = 192.168.16.4 port = 9090 } unix_listener director-userdb { mode = 0600 } unix_listener login/director { mode = 0666 } } service doveadm { inet_listener { port = 24245 } } service imap-login { executable = imap-login director } service lmtp { inet_listener lmtp { address = * :: port = 24 } } service pop3-login { executable = pop3-login director } ssl_cert = </etc/ssl/cert/mail.univ-angers.fr.pem ssl_key = </etc/ssl/cert/mail.univ-angers.fr.key userdb { args = /usr/local/etc/dovecot/dovecot-ldap.conf.ext driver = ldap } protocol lmtp { auth_socket_path = director-userdb } protocol doveadm { auth_socket_path = director-userdb } local 192.168.16.0/24/24 { doveadm_password = mysecret }

Last thing, in my config file, there is only one /24 on local network but this is another problem.