dovecot - Jun 2008 - Cygwin and dovecot-auth problems

Hi all.
I'm trying to install Dovecot 1.1.rc13 on Cygwin.
I've read the related posts, and I realize that maybe there's no
solution at present; since I'm having a different error, though, I'm
posting it here.

Compilation succeeds. Starting dovecot from command line results in:

Warning: fd limit 256 is lower than what Dovecot can use under full load (more
than 640). Either grow the limit or change login_max_processes_count and
max_mail_processes settings
Warning: Last died with error (see error log for more information): Auth process
died too early - shutting down


Trying to run just dovecot-auth outputs:

dovecot-auth: Fatal: MECHANISMS environment is unset


Now, if I try to set an environment variable called MECHANISMS (say, export
MECHANISMS=plain) I get a different error:

dovecot-auth: Fatal: No passdbs specified in configuration file. PLAIN mechanism
needs one


This is the output of dovecot -n:

# 1.1.rc13: /usr/local/etc/dovecot.conf
Warning: fd limit 256 is lower than what Dovecot can use under full load (more
than 640). Either grow the limit or change login_max_processes_count and
max_mail_processes settings
log_path: /tmp/logs/dovecot-error.log
info_log_path: /tmp/logs/dovecot-other.log
listen: 127.0.0.1
ssl_disable: yes
ssl_cipher_list: ALL:!LOW:!SSLv2
disable_plaintext_auth: no
login_dir: /usr/local/var/run/dovecot/login
login_executable: /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/imap-login
login_user: MyUser
login_greeting: Yo, mate.
login_process_per_connection: no
login_greeting_capability: yes
login_process_size: 0
mail_max_userip_connections: 20
verbose_proctitle: yes
mail_location: maildir:~/Maildir
mail_process_size: 0
auth default:
  verbose: yes
  debug: yes
  process_size: 0
  passdb:
    driver: passwd-file
    args: /etc/passwd
  userdb:
    driver: passwd-file
    args: /etc/passwd


Any clues or suggestions, anything I could try...? ^__^

Thanks,

Angelo


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On Sat, 2008-06-21 at 00:45 +0000, TBlack wrote:
> Warning: fd limit 256 is lower than what Dovecot can use under full load
(more than 640). Either grow the limit or change login_max_processes_count and
max_mail_processes settings
> Warning: Last died with error (see error log for more information): Auth
process died too early - shutting down
Look at the logs for the exact reason why auth process died.
http://wiki.dovecot.org/Logging
> Trying to run just dovecot-auth outputs:
> 
> dovecot-auth: Fatal: MECHANISMS environment is unset
This is normal. You shouldn't try to run dovecot-auth directly.

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21/06/2008 3.57 - Timo Sirainen wrote:
> On Sat, 2008-06-21 at 00:45 +0000, TBlack wrote:
>> Warning: fd limit 256 is lower than what Dovecot can use under full
>> load (more than 640). Either grow the limit or change
>> login_max_processes_count and max_mail_processes settings Warning:
>> Last died with error (see error log for more information): Auth
>> process died too early - shutting down
> 
> Look at the logs for the exact reason why auth process died. 
> http://wiki.dovecot.org/Logging
The error log, each time I try to start Dovecot from a command line, has
these two lines appended:

dovecot: Jun 21 12:16:23 Error: Socket already exists:
/usr/local/var/run/dovecot/dict-server
dovecot: Jun 21 12:16:24 Fatal: Auth process died too early - shutting down


Following the december 2007 thread between you and Ronny:

http://dovecot.markmail.org/search/?q=cygwin+2nd

...I tried to start dovecot via inetd rather than command line, and now 
I seem to be stuck at exactly the same point. Dovecot starts, but when I 
telnet localhost 143 I see:

Trying 127.0.0.1...
Connected to localhost.
Escape character is '^]'.
Fatal: EOF while reading environment from master
Connection closed by foreign host.

By the way, if I restart inetd and try to telnet again I get this (just
like Ronny):

Trying 127.0.0.1...
Connected to localhost.
Escape character is '^]'.
Fatal: write_full(master_fd) failed: Transport endpoint is not connected
Connection closed by foreign host.

Cleaning the /usr/local/var/run/dovecot directory works for me, too.

Now, was there anything to try at this point? The old thread just
stopped here.. :-(

A.