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I ran into this and had a bit of trouble tracking a diagnosis down, so here it is for the archives in case anyone else runs into this. A new installation of dovecot was failing to start, with these messages: $ ./sbin/dovecot Error: service(imap-urlauth): net_listen_unix(.../var/run/dovecot/token-login/imap-urlauth) failed: Invalid argument Error: service(auth): net_listen_unix(.../var/run/dovecot/token-login/tokenlogin) failed: Invalid argument Fatal: Failed to start listeners Some of the other processes seemed to be starting up fine, and they cr...

...the dict server (tested with sqlite backend) is somewhat broken. It bails out regularly with "Fatal: dict: Socket already exists: ..." (looks like a race condition as it doesn't fail always). We discovered that this new code in dict-server.c seems to be the problem: server->fd = net_listen_unix_unlink_stale(path, 64); if (server->fd == -1) { if (errno == EADDRINUSE) i_fatal("Socket already exists: %s", path); else i_fatal("net_listen_unix(%s) failed: %m", path); } replacing it with the old code: int i = 0; [...] while (server->fd == -1) {...

...connected: Logged out top=0/0, retr=1/4652, del=1/1, size=4635 Jun 6 15:58:10 cello dovecot: Lost login process PID 17214 Jun 6 15:58:12 cello dovecot: Dovecot v1.0.0 starting up Jun 6 15:58:12 cello dovecot: Socket already exists: /qnet/var/run/dovecot/dict-server Jun 6 15:58:12 cello dovecot: net_listen_unix(/qnet/var/run/dovecot/login/default) failed: Address already in use Jun 6 15:58:12 cello dovecot: Couldn't create auth process listener Jun 6 15:58:12 cello dovecot: net_listen_unix(/qnet/var/run/dovecot/login/default) failed: Address already in use Jun 6 15:58:12 cello dovecot: Couldn't...

...i try to start dovecot it dies giving the following error message in /var/log/maillog Jun 1 20:30:16 foo dovecot: Dovecot v1.0.0 starting up Jun 1 20:30:16 foo dovecot: auth(default): bind(/var/run/dovecot/auth-master) failed: No such file or directory Jun 1 20:30:16 foo dovecot: auth(default): net_listen_unix(/var/run/dovecot/auth-master) failed: No such file or directory Jun 1 20:30:16 foo dovecot: Auth process died too early - shutting down Jun 1 20:30:16 foo dovecot: child 9760 (auth) returned error 89 I've read the http://wiki.dovecot.org/CompilingSource but am stuck now with this issue. i al...

...gt; What exactly do the logs show? Erm, they show exactly what I posted earlier ? 2018-10-11T12:14:15.467791+01:00 X dovecot: master: Error: bind(/var/spool/postfix-authrelay/private/dovecot-auth) failed: Permission denied 2018-10-11T12:14:15.468094+01:00 X dovecot: master: Error: service(auth): net_listen_unix(/var/spool/postfix-authrelay/private/dovecot-auth) failed: Permission denied 2018-10-11T12:14:15.468216+01:00 X dovecot: master: Fatal: Failed to start listeners > > > postconf -c /etc/postfix-authrelay | fgrep sasl > > As described inhttp://www.postfix.org/DEBUG_README.html please...

...7 starting up Dec 29 21:54:06 grp-01-50-90 dovecot: Generating Diffie-Hellman parameters for the first time. This may take a while.. Dec 29 21:54:06 grp-01-50-90 dovecot: auth(default): bind(/var/run/dovecot/auth-master) failed: Permission denied Dec 29 21:54:06 grp-01-50-90 dovecot: auth(default): net_listen_unix(/var/run/dovecot/auth-master) failed: Permission denied Here are the permissions on the filesystem: # ls -ld /var/run/dovecot drwxr-xr-x 3 root dovecot 4096 2007-12-29 22:07 /var/run/dovecot And in the conf file there is this in the lda protocol: socket listen { master { path = /v...

...a warning about an authentication failure. Now this: > 2018-10-11T12:14:15.467791+01:00 X dovecot: master: Error: > bind(/var/spool/postfix-authrelay/private/dovecot-auth) failed: > Permission denied > 2018-10-11T12:14:15.468094+01:00 X dovecot: master: Error: > service(auth): > net_listen_unix(/var/spool/postfix-authrelay/private/dovecot-auth) > failed: Permission denied > 2018-10-11T12:14:15.468216+01:00 X dovecot: master: Fatal: Failed to > start listeners That's a permission error. Somewhere in your directory hierarchy things are off. See Postfix' set-permissions com...

...n the running. Unfortunately, this has not succeeded to me, only the Pop3 daemon runs without problems. /var/log/dovecot.log dovecot: 2009-04-03 01:04:38 Error: auth(default): bind(/var/spool/postifx/private/auth) failed: No such file or directory dovecot: 2009-04-03 01:04:38 Fatal: auth(default): net_listen_unix(/var/spool/postifx/private/auth) failed: No such file or directory dovecot: 2009-04-03 01:04:38 Fatal: Auth process died too early - shutting down /var/log/mail.log Apr 3 01:08:38 server1 postfix/master[14627]: daemon started -- version 2.5.5, configuration /etc/postfix Apr 3 01:09:07 server1 po...

...rver # /etc/init.d/dovecot start Last died with error (see error log for more information): Socket already exists: /opt/local/var/run/dovecot/dict-server Aug 6 06:57:50 hostname dovecot: [ID 583609 local0.info] Dovecot v1.2.12 starting up Aug 6 06:57:50 hostname dovecot: [ID 583609 local0.error] net_listen_unix(/opt/local/var/run/dovecot/login/default) failed: Address already in use Aug 6 06:57:50 hostname dovecot: [ID 583609 local0.crit] Fatal: Couldn't create auth process listener # ls -al /opt/local/var/run/dovecot/dict-server srwxrwxrwx 1 root other 0 Aug 6 06:57 /opt/local/var/r...

We've being running with Dovecot 1.0-stable since Tuesday, and on the whole it's gone very well (meaning nobody's noticed!). My best estimate is we're using half the disk accesses and 2/3 the CPU of UW-IMAP/Qpopper. We've quite a mixture of error messages in the logs, the most worrying of which is that several times we've had a few seconds of "xxx-login: Can't

Hi, I am trying to create an authenticated relay server using Postfix and Dovecot. However I am having two problems : (a) If I create a dovecot config entry as follows : unix_listener /var/spool/postfix-authrelay/private/dovecot-auth { group = postfix mode = 0666 user = postfix } Dovecot is unable to create the socket ? I thought surely if dovecot is started as root it should