> Sorry for any confusion. np. issue solved. for my config,
... service auth-worker { user = doveauth unix_listener auth-worker { user = doveauth } } ... then service dovecot-custom restart ls -al /var/run/dovecot/auth-worker srw------- 1 doveauth root 0 Oct 11 20:56 /var/run/dovecot/auth-worker better. and, telnet 127.0.0.1 4143 Trying 127.0.0.1... Connected to 127.0.0.1. Escape character is '^]'. * OK [CAPABILITY IMAP4rev1 LITERAL+ SASL-IR LOGIN-REFERRALS ID ENABLE IDLE AUTH=PLAIN] Dovecot ready. a login "x...@domain.loc" "testpass" a OK [CAPABILITY IMAP4rev1 LITERAL+ SASL-IR LOGIN-REFERRALS ID ENABLE IDLE SORT SORT=DISPLAY THREAD=REFERENCES THREAD=REFS MULTIAPPEND UNSELECT CHILDREN NAMESPACE UIDPLUS LIST-EXTENDED I18NLEVEL=1 CONDSTORE QRESYNC ESEARCH ESORT SEARCHRES WITHIN CONTEXT=SEARCH LIST-STATUS QUOTA ACL RIGHTS=texk] Logged in > I'm curious though, why are you setting the auth stuff up to be owned by > postfix if you'd trying to authenticate dovecot imap processes? It seems > you're mixing two different configs. I'm converting to SQL from flatfiles (http://wiki2.dovecot.org/HowTo/VirtualUserFlatFilesPostfix). Just haven't gotten to making all the changes yet. Single-stepping through testing, got to IMAP and found this issue. Thanks for the help!