Can't make Dovecot communicate with Postfix using SASL (warning: SASL: Connect to private/auth failed: No such file or directory)
- by Fred Rocha
Solved. I will leave this as a reference to other people, as I have seen this error reported often enough on line.
I had to change the path
smtpd_sasl_path = private/auth
in my
/etc/postfix/main.cf
to relative, instead of absolute. This is because in Debian Postfix runs chrooted (and how does this affect the path structure?! Anyone?)
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I am trying to get Dovecot to communicate with Postfix for SMTP support via SASL. the master plan is to be able to host multiple e-mail accounts on my (Debian Lenny 64 bits) server, using virtual users. Whenever I test my current configuration, by running
telnet server-IP smtp
I get the following error on mail.log
warning: SASL: Connect to /var/spool/postfix/private/auth failed: No such file or directory
Now, Dovecot is supposed to create the auth socket file, yet it doesn't. I have given the right privileges to the directory private, and even tried creating a auth file manually.
The output of
postconf -a
is
cyrus
dovecot
Am I correct in assuming from this that the package was compiled with SASL support?
My dovecot.conf also holds
client {
path = /var/spool/postfix/private/auth
mode = 0660
user = postfix
group = postfix
}
I have tried every solution out there, and am pretty much desperate after a full day of struggling with the issue. Can anybody help me, pretty please?
