Dovecot not generating 'private/auth' file - please help!
It seems Dovecot is not generating the private/auth file required for connections.
Mail.log
Sep 6 21:55:55 suncoastshores postfix/smtpd[11278]: warning: SASL: Connect to private/auth failed: No such file or directory
Sep 6 21:55:55 suncoastshores postfix/smtpd[11278]: fatal: no SASL authentication mechanisms
ls -l /var/spool/postfix/private/
srw-rw-rw- 1 postfix postfix 0 Sep 6 22:26 amavis
srw-rw-rw- 1 postfix postfix 0 Sep 6 22:26 anvil
srw-rw-rw- 1 postfix postfix 0 Sep 6 22:26 bounce
srw-rw-rw- 1 postfix postfix 0 Sep 6 22:26 bsmtp
srw-rw-rw- 1 postfix postfix 0 Sep 6 22:26 defer
srw-rw-rw- 1 postfix postfix 0 Sep 6 22:26 discard
srw-rw-rw- 1 postfix postfix 0 Sep 6 22:26 dovecot
srw-rw-rw- 1 postfix postfix 0 Sep 6 22:26 error
srw-rw-rw- 1 postfix postfix 0 Sep 6 22:26 ifmail
srw-rw-rw- 1 postfix postfix 0 Sep 6 22:26 lmtp
srw-rw-rw- 1 postfix postfix 0 Sep 6 22:26 local
srw-rw-rw- 1 postfix postfix 0 Sep 6 22:26 maildrop
srw-rw-rw- 1 postfix postfix 0 Sep 6 22:26 mailman
srw-rw-rw- 1 postfix postfix 0 Sep 6 22:26 proxymap
srw-rw-rw- 1 postfix postfix 0 Sep 6 22:26 proxywrite
srw-rw-rw- 1 postfix postfix 0 Sep 6 22:26 relay
srw-rw-rw- 1 postfix postfix 0 Sep 6 22:26 retry
srw-rw-rw- 1 postfix postfix 0 Sep 6 22:26 rewrite
srw-rw-rw- 1 postfix postfix 0 Sep 6 22:26 scache
srw-rw-rw- 1 postfix postfix 0 Sep 6 22:26 scalemail-backend
srw-rw-rw- 1 postfix postfix 0 Sep 6 22:26 smtp
srw-rw-rw- 1 postfix postfix 0 Sep 6 22:26 tlsmgr
srw-rw-rw- 1 postfix postfix 0 Sep 6 22:26 trace
srw-rw-rw- 1 postfix postfix 0 Sep 6 22:26 uucp
srw-rw-rw- 1 postfix postfix 0 Sep 6 22:26 verify
srw-rw-rw- 1 postfix postfix 0 Sep 6 22:26 virtual
Hostname````
hostname
suncoastshores
hostname -f
suncoastshores.suncoastshores.com
Dovecot Main.cf (snippets)
SASL parameters
---------------------------------
Use Dovecot to authenticate.
smtpdsasltype = dovecot
Referring to /var/spool/postfix/private/auth
smtpdsaslpath = private/auth
smtpdsaslauthenable = yes
brokensaslauthclients = yes
smtpdsaslsecurityoptions = noanonymous
smtpdsasllocaldomain =
smtpdsaslauthenticated_header = yes
General host and delivery info
----------------------------------
myhostname = suncoastshores.suncoastshores.com
myorigin = /etc/hostname
mydestination = suncoastshores.suncoastshores.com, localhost
10-master.conf (snippet)
# Postfix smtp-auth
unix_listener /var/spool/postfix/private/auth {
mode = 0660
user = postfix
group = postfix
}
````
What am I missing? Why won't Dovecot generate the private/auth file?
3 Replies
Now I'm getting a Connection Refused message..
Sep 7 10:42:03 suncoastshores postfix/smtpd[19153]: warning: SASL: Connect to private/auth failed: Connection refused
Sep 7 10:42:03 suncoastshores postfix/smtpd[19153]: fatal: no SASL authentication mechanisms
My head's going to explode…
unix_listener auth-master {
mode = 0660
user = vmail
group = vmail
}