> That's what I have, except my passdb driver is sql. Could that be the > problem?
Following the lines of what Viktor said about creating the auth socket. You only confirmed you have the service auth{...} in dovecot config. Did you confirm the socket is being physically created? If there are permission issues in the directories dovecot will still startup without creating the socket. [root@host /]# ll /var/spool/postfix/private/auth srw-rw---- 1 postfix postfix 0 Jan 4 15:31 /var/spool/postfix/private/auth