dovecot - Feb 2009 - Errors after install with non-standard prefix

Hi Everyone,

I'm new in dovecot - so first at all, thank you for amazing work.
I'd flicked through dovecot code and it's very accurate.

I'm trying to use dovecot with a little bit non-standard configuration:
dovecot installed under /my_path/dovecot, all users has the same home 
directory  /my_path/var/mail and have to access all mailboxes/folders 
located there.

But I have troubles with it:

Right after start dovecot start spamming log with

Error: dict: dict client: Broken handshake

besides of GB's of lines above I have:

Error: imap-login: Timeout waiting for handshake from auth server. my 
pid=18493, input bytes=0

And of course nothing works.

Thank you!
-Dmitry
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#/zhome/dovecot/sbin/dovecot -n
# 1.1.10: /zhome/dovecot/etc/dovecot.conf
# OS: SunOS 5.10 sun4v  zfs
base_dir: /zhome/var/run/dovecot
log_path: /zhome/var/log/dovecot_main.log
info_log_path: /zhome/var/log/dovecot_info.log
protocols: imap
ssl_disable: yes
disable_plaintext_auth: no
login_dir: /zhome/var/run/dovecot
login_executable: /zhome/dovecot/libexec/dovecot/imap-login
login_user: exim
login_chroot: no
login_max_processes_count: 30
max_mail_processes: 30
first_valid_uid: 1
mail_uid: exim
mail_gid: exim
mail_location: mbox:/zhome/var/mail:INBOX=/zhome/var/mail/.dead_letters
mail_debug: yes
mbox_lazy_writes: no
auth default:
   failure_delay: 1
   verbose: yes
   debug: yes
   worker_max_request_count: 1
   passdb:
     driver: pam
     args: dovecot


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Dmitry Samersoff
dms at samersoff.net, http://devnull.samersoff.net
* There will come soft rains ...

On Mon, 2009-02-02 at 14:43 +0300, Dmitry Samersoff
wrote:
> Error: dict: dict client: Broken handshake
..
> base_dir: /zhome/var/run/dovecot
..
> login_dir: /zhome/var/run/dovecot
These can't be the same! Just don't specify login_dir at all, it'll
use
the default which is under base_dir.
> login_user: exim
> login_chroot: no
..
> mail_uid: exim
> mail_gid: exim
These look suspicious. Are you going to run entire Dovecot under exim
user? If not, login_user can't be the same as mail_uid.

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Timo,

Thanks a lot it helps.

1.

What is dependency between login directory and dict client?
Are you trying to open unix domain sockets or pipes under login dir? If 
yes - is it possible to force dovecot to open it all under /tmp ?

2.
Generally I would like to run entire dovecot under exim user but dovecot
claims
  Logins with login_user's UID 69 not permitted
despite the fact I set
  first_valid_uid = 1
changing login user to nobody helps.

-Dmitry.

Timo Sirainen wrote:
> On Mon, 2009-02-02 at 14:43 +0300, Dmitry Samersoff wrote:
>> Error: dict: dict client: Broken handshake
> ..
>> base_dir: /zhome/var/run/dovecot
> ..
>> login_dir: /zhome/var/run/dovecot
> 
> These can't be the same! Just don't specify login_dir at all,
it'll use
> the default which is under base_dir.
> 
>> login_user: exim
>> login_chroot: no
> ..
>> mail_uid: exim
>> mail_gid: exim
> 
> These look suspicious. Are you going to run entire Dovecot under exim
> user? If not, login_user can't be the same as mail_uid.
> 

-- 
Dmitry Samersoff
dms at samersoff.net, http://devnull.samersoff.net
* There will come soft rains ...