Public bug reported: Hello,
I currently try to setup a local mail infrastructure: Retrieving them via fetchmail, provide them locally by postfix and use dovecot for IMAP access. I also want to use SMTP AUTH with SASL via dovecot. In order to do so I added the following configuration to /etc/postfix/main.cf: ... smtpd_sasl_auth_enable = yes smtpd_sasl_authenticated_header = yes smtpd_sasl_exceptions_networks = smtpd_sasl_local_domain = $myhostname smtpd_sasl_path = private/dovecot-auth smtpd_sasl_security_options = noanonymous smtpd_sasl_tls_security_options = $smtpd_sasl_security_options smtpd_sasl_type = dovecot ... and a corresponding line in /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf: ... auth default { mechanisms = plain login socket listen { client { path = /var/spool/postfix/private/dovecot-auth mode = 0660 user = postfix group = postfix } } ... (full dovecot.conf is added to this report). Now I try to start dovecot by "sudo service dovecot start" and get the message * Restarting IMAP/POP3 mail server dovecot Last died with error (see error log for more information): Auth process died too early - shutting down [ OK ] on command line and 2010-06-06 16:07:52 auth(default): Fatal: Socket already exists: /var/spool/postfix/private/dovecot-auth 2010-06-06 16:07:52 dovecot: Fatal: Auth process died too early - shutting down in the log. I shut down postfix and deleted the socket manually, but this does not help. Also I set the "count = 1" in the "auth default" section (I found some report that more that one auth process is a problem back in 2006?). The problem prevails. So I regard this as an error. Best regards! ** Affects: dovecot (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New -- dovecot dies with "Fatal: Socket already exists: /var/spool/postfix/private/dovecot-auth" https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/590408 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs