dovecot - May 2009 - Can't connect to auth server

I'm trying to phase out procmail and move to dovecot-sieve instead. It
ain't proving easy. I'll describe my setup:

- Centos 5.2 box with dovecot 1.1.4 and dovecot-sieve 1.1.6 from ATrpms.

- A single user account is used to store all our email (the account is
called maildb).

- Getmail is being used to fetch the email from various ISP mailboxes.
I want to deliver mail to different folders in maildb's Maildir/
depending on who the email is addressed to (the procmail recipes
currently do that).

- Getmail destination section looks like this:
     [destination]
     type = MDA_external
     path = /usr/libexec/dovecot/deliver
     arguments = ("-d", "maildb")
     allow_root_commands = true

- When I run getmail I get this error in dovecot.log:
deliver(maildb): May 04 22:15:26 Error: Can't connect to auth server
at /var/run/dovecot/auth-master: No such file or directory

It's true that I don't have a file called auth-master. I guess I
should have but until I started this dovecot-sieve work it was never a
problem. I have no idea what that file should look like. As I
installed from binary RPMs I would have thought one would have come
with the install.

Can anyone help?

Regards,
Phill

> I'm trying to phase out procmail and move to dovecot-sieve instead. It
> ain't proving easy. I'll describe my setup:
>
> - Centos 5.2 box with dovecot 1.1.4 and dovecot-sieve 1.1.6 from ATrpms.
>
> - A single user account is used to store all our email (the account is
> called maildb).
>
> - Getmail is being used to fetch the email from various ISP mailboxes.
> I want to deliver mail to different folders in maildb's Maildir/
> depending on who the email is addressed to (the procmail recipes
> currently do that).
>
> - Getmail destination section looks like this:
> ? ? [destination]
> ? ? type = MDA_external
> ? ? path = /usr/libexec/dovecot/deliver
> ? ? arguments = ("-d", "maildb")
> ? ? allow_root_commands = true
>
> - When I run getmail I get this error in dovecot.log:
> deliver(maildb): May 04 22:15:26 Error: Can't connect to auth server
> at /var/run/dovecot/auth-master: No such file or directory
>
> It's true that I don't have a file called auth-master. I guess I
> should have but until I started this dovecot-sieve work it was never a
> problem. I have no idea what that file should look like. As I
> installed from binary RPMs I would have thought one would have come
> with the install.
>
> Can anyone help?
Anyone? I'm pretty stuck if I can't resolve this :(

Regards,
Phill

I had such problem, and I didn't find any information about
"auth-master"
socket
My mail.log was pretty clear, but there were several repeating "...Error:
Can't connect to auth server at /var/run/dovecot/auth-master: No such file
or directory" in the /etc/dovecot/dovecot.log. It was lasting several days
while I was searching about this issue.
Finally I found one old entry in dovecot.log :"Error: auth(default): mysql:
Missing value in connect string: host", I rechecked my
/etc/dovecot/dovecot-sql.conf and there was one extra space in connection
string.
"connect = host =127.0.0.1" instead of
"connect = host=127.0.0.1"
Now mail-server works perfectly and "auth-master" was created
automatically
in the /var/run/dovecot directory. =)




Phill Edwards wrote:
> 
> I'm trying to phase out procmail and move to dovecot-sieve instead. It
> ain't proving easy. I'll describe my setup:
> 
> - Centos 5.2 box with dovecot 1.1.4 and dovecot-sieve 1.1.6 from ATrpms.
> 
> - A single user account is used to store all our email (the account is
> called maildb).
> 
> - Getmail is being used to fetch the email from various ISP mailboxes.
> I want to deliver mail to different folders in maildb's Maildir/
> depending on who the email is addressed to (the procmail recipes
> currently do that).
> 
> - Getmail destination section looks like this:
>      [destination]
>      type = MDA_external
>      path = /usr/libexec/dovecot/deliver
>      arguments = ("-d", "maildb")
>      allow_root_commands = true
> 
> - When I run getmail I get this error in dovecot.log:
> deliver(maildb): May 04 22:15:26 Error: Can't connect to auth server
> at /var/run/dovecot/auth-master: No such file or directory
> 
> It's true that I don't have a file called auth-master. I guess I
> should have but until I started this dovecot-sieve work it was never a
> problem. I have no idea what that file should look like. As I
> installed from binary RPMs I would have thought one would have come
> with the install.
> 
> Can anyone help?
> 
> Regards,
> Phill
> 
> 
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