similar to: auth: Error: net_connect_unix(anvil-auth-penalty) failed: Permission denied

I've set lmtp_user_concurrency_limit to 5 and now LMTP throws this at me for every delivery: Apr 07 13:38:33 lmtp(4434): Error: net_connect_unix(/var/run/dovecot/anvil) failed: Permission denied ls -l /var/run/dovecot/anvil srw------- 1 root root 0 Apr 7 13:32 /var/run/dovecot/anvil If I set lmtp_user_concurrency_limit to 0, the error goes away. -- Tom

Since the changesets: http://hg.dovecot.org/dovecot-2.0/rev/9bec70f26637 http://hg.dovecot.org/dovecot-2.0/rev/75b48fa3aec4 there is another problem. A `dovecot stop`, while auth and auth -w are still running, logs: Nov 12 03:17:00 master: Warning: Killed with signal 15 (by pid=31656 uid=0 code=kill) Nov 12 03:17:00 auth: Error: read(anvil-auth-penalty) failed: EOF Nov 12 03:17:00 auth:

Hi all, we have a problem about anvil, it seems that when we have a high load the dovecot stops to work. Sometimes it is sufficient to make a dovecot reload, but sometimes we have to restart it. These are the lines related to anvil in the dovecot.log: [root at secchia ~]# grep anvil /var/log/dovecot.log | more Oct 26 11:13:55 anvil: Error: net_accept() failed: Too many open files Oct 26

Using rpms and converted dovecot.conf with doveconf. Need assistance to determine how to resolve 'auth-worker' and userdb complaint. logging into mysql from commandline with mail admin acct and using dovecot sql query is successful but the following fails: doveadm auth -x service=imap -x lip=127.0.0.1 john Password: passdb: john auth failed extra fields: temp doveadm(root): Fatal:

Hi, I can confirm that in the bad behavior, the 5 second delay occurs at each AUTH in our case. I think the configuration we have kill auth process at each end of AUTH (and fork a new one for next next AUTH). I think the "disable" flag is local to the process that is killed / respawned. A collegue of mine, Laurent Guerby, has found a workaround for us and it's findings seems

Hi, I am trying to use Quota in dovecot-2.0.11. I find as a sender(same user a receiver) I receive an email that receiver's Quota is exceeded , and receiver's mailbox is full . This is good, however the receiver whose MB is full isn't getting any quota-warning. Configuration is as below, dovecot -n # 2.0.11: /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf # OS: Linux 2.6.35-gentoo-r8 x86_64 Gentoo Base

Hi, I hit a bizare problem with dovecot 2.2.7 on debian 9 with LMTP enabled and auth/penalty disabled as documented here : https://wiki.dovecot.org/Authentication/Penalty Use case : I run a swaks command to send an email to an exim4 that tries to make a callout to dovecot-lmtp. At RCPT TO: swaks hangs 5.0<something-small> seconds then process normally (exim is waiting for callout

Hello, we have the following problem: Nov 3 09:43:33 minerva dovecot: [ID 583609 local0.warning] master: Warning: service(anvil): client_limit reached, client connections are being dropped Nov 3 09:51:33 minerva dovecot: [ID 583609 local0.error] imap-login: Error: net_connect_unix(anvil) failed: Connection refused Nov 3 09:51:33 minerva dovecot: [ID 583609 local0.crit] imap-login: Fatal:

Hi, I'm strugling to find some documentation on dovecot's anvil service and/or its penalties (that can be checked with doveadm penalty) ... but i'm not finding anything on that. is there any documentation on anvil/penalties that i should check other than a few messages on the mailing list archive ? thanks ! -- Atenciosamente / Sincerily, Leonardo Rodrigues

> http://hg.dovecot.org/dovecot-2.2/rev/64c73e6bd397 ==> /var/log/dovecot/dovecot.log <== Aug 25 09:42:07 nihlus dovecot: imap(tlx at leuxner.net): Error: net_connect_unix(/var/run/dovecot/imap-hibernate) failed: Permission denied Aug 25 09:42:07 nihlus dovecot: imap(tlx at leuxner.net): Error: Couldn't hibernate imap client: Couldn't export state: Virtual mailboxes have no GUIDs

Op 20/12/2018 om 18:09 schreef Ludovic Pouzenc: > Hi, > > I hit a bizare problem with dovecot 2.2.7 on debian 9 with LMTP enabled and auth/penalty disabled as documented here : > https://wiki.dovecot.org/Authentication/Penalty > > Use case : I run a swaks command to send an email to an exim4 that tries to make a callout to dovecot-lmtp. > At RCPT TO: swaks hangs

I?m running Dovecot 2.3.4 on FreeBSD 11.2 with qmail. In my mail log, I see messages like this on every delivery Jan 8 10:30:02 v1 qmail: 1546961402.314222 delivery 533: success: lda(matt,)Error:_net_connect_unix(/var/run/dovecot/stats-writer)_failed:_Permission_denied/did_0+0+1/ Searching for this error, I found a message on a support forum for a different server that suggested adding this to

Hello, I am running dovecot-2.0.13-1_128.el5 x86_64 RPM on CentOS 5.7 with the config shown below. All accounts are virtual, hosted on LDAP Server. My problem is that the quota warning mail is not sent as expected. For example, in the logs I get: Dec 12 08:42:40 vmail dovecot: lda(imaptester): Error: quota: net_connect_unix(/var/run/dovecot/quota-warning) failed: Permission denied

Hi, I'm using dovecot as a local mail store on my laptop using preauth tunneling. It turns out I almost don't even need to start dovecot at all; the only reason it needs to be running is so that FTS indexing can be invoked. And because I don't want it to run any services, I can run it as an unprivileged user, so long as I turn them all off: # We don't want to serve any

Greetings, I'm setting up replication and am getting this error from the server where the replicated mails are being initially created: Aug 27 11:03:53 molecular dovecot: dsync-server(user at domain.org): Error: Couldn't create lock /vmail/domain.org/user/home/.dovecot-sync.lock: No such file or directory Can anyone shed some light on this? Here's the Replicator config of the

I have migrated from dovecot 1.2 to dovecot 2.0. When I connect via telnet to 110 port of the dovecot server the client hangs: telnet 192.168.4.80 110 Trying 192.168.4.80... /Connected to 192.168.4.80. Escape character is '^]'./ In syslog I got the following error: /Jan 12 12:14:44 buzon dovecot: imap-login: Error: auth: connect(login) in directory / failed: Permission denied

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA256 Hi, First of all, thank you for the work the contributors are doing with Dovecot ! Dovecot is doing a great job ! I am encountering a problem with a configuration and, despite my search on the web, I do not find any solution for this problem. Dovecot seems to stop accepting new connection. The users : - - can not save sent messages to

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 We're running multiple instances on the same server. While doveadm penalty works: root at host:/etc/dovecot# doveadm penalty IP penalty last_penalty last_update 93.180.xxx.xxx 4 2014-05-10 12:21:08 12:21:08 80.153.xxx.xxx 0 2014-05-10 12:21:12 12:21:12 a seperate anvil-Socket doesn't work at all: root

Hi, We are getting very occasional messags from dovecot: > net_connect_unix(/var/run/dovecot/stats-writer) failed: Permission denied Over the last week, the message appeared five times. (on a mail server with over 100 users, to that's basically almost never) doveconf -n below > # 2.3.4.1 (f79e8e7e4): /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf > # Pigeonhole version 0.5.4 () > # OS: Linux

Afer a reboot (and installation of postfix-3.4.5) I am getting the stat-writer permission denied error again. from doveconf -n service stats { unix_listener stats-reader { user = dovecot } unix_listener stats-writer { user = dovecot } } # ls -ls /var/run/dovecot/stats-writer 0 srw-rw---- 1 dovecot dovecot 0 Apr 20 04:34 /var/run/dovecot/stats-writer Apr 20 04:45:00 mail