On Fri, 22 Aug 2008 04:50:40 +0300, Timo Sirainen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, 2008-08-22 at 03:45 +0200, Manuel Maurer wrote: > >> The folder /var/run/dovecot_main was created at startup, just the >> login directory not, why? > > Because you were using external authentication. But why do the logfiles say this directory is missing? As far as i understood the Login-Process, every imap-login and pop3-login process is chrooted inside the login folder until the user is authentificated. In this case it would be necessary to have this folder. When i create it by hand it is missing the authentification socket. Is this the socket "default", normally located inside the login folder? If so, why is this also not created? >> At the moment i got it up and running by using an own auth-process >> for every dovecot instance. But i would prefer authentification via >> one single process. > > I didn't notice this in your previous settings. Unfortunately it doesn't > work like that currently, because Dovecots get confused as to who owns > which auth connection. Sorry, i misspresented this. I am not using this configuration when i try to set up the single auth-process. Just recognized that it is also possible to run dovecot in that way. But that's not what i want. The configuration i posted the very first time is that what i use (now with chroot and login_dir set to default). If i absolutely do not get it running with single auth, i would use an auth-server for every dovecot instance.
Manuel