dovecot - May 2014 - socket /var/spool/postfix/private/auth not created

I'm on Ubuntu 13.10 and followed these instructions
http://wiki2.dovecot.org/HowTo/PostfixAndDovecotSASL to configure Dovecot
for Postfix.

No matter what I try, the listener is not created.

<http://dovecot.2317879.n4.nabble.com/file/n48182/32.png> 


dovecot -n does not show the listener (I guess that's why its not created)

This is the extract from the /etc/dovecot/conf.d/10-master.conf

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service auth {
  # auth_socket_path points to this userdb socket by default. It's typically
  # used by dovecot-lda, doveadm, possibly imap process, etc. Users that
have
  # full permissions to this socket are able to get a list of all usernames
and
  # get the results of everyone's userdb lookups.
  #
  # The default 0666 mode allows anyone to connect to the socket, but the
  # userdb lookups will succeed only if the userdb returns an "uid"
field
that
  # matches the caller process's UID. Also if caller's uid or gid
matches
the
  # socket's uid or gid the lookup succeeds. Anything else causes a failure.
  #
  # To give the caller full permissions to lookup all users, set the mode to
  # something else than 0666 and Dovecot lets the kernel enforce the
  # permissions (e.g. 0777 allows everyone full permissions).
  unix_listener auth-userdb {
    #mode = 0666
    #user = 
    #group = 
  }

  # Postfix smtp-auth
  unix_listener /var/spool/postfix/private/auth {
    mode = 0600
    user = postfix
    group = postfix
  }
  # Auth process is run as this user.
  #user = $default_internal_user

}


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Postfix is not involved in this right now as I expect the socket to be
created when I restart dovecot. Can't find any meaningfull errors in the
logs either.
I hope I'm missing something obvious

Thanks,

Leo



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* lister171254 <llsubscr at zudiewiener.com> 2014.05.24 11:56:
> No matter what I try, the listener is not created.
> 
> <http://dovecot.2317879.n4.nabble.com/file/n48182/32.png> 
Text does the trick as well and survives pictures in the archives ;)
>   # Postfix smtp-auth
>   unix_listener /var/spool/postfix/private/auth {
>     mode = 0600
>     user = postfix
>     group = postfix
The wiki quoted and my running config both use 'mode = 0660'. Give that
a try:

service auth {
  unix_listener /var/spool/postfix/private/auth {
    group = postfix
    mode = 0660
    user = postfix
  }
  user = doveauth
}

You may leave out the extra doveauth user which is a specific flavor of my
configuration. If that still fails, you should post some log excerpts from
dovecot after a reload which probably show the problem.

Regards
Thomas
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