Postfix + Dovecot with sasl

joseph · 12-26-2011, 11:29 PM

Hi all,

I am getting an error in my dovecot.conf file in this line below :

Code:

path=/var/spool/postfix/private/auth

I am trying to setup email server with postfix and dovecot and had follow all the instruction listed in their web but the problem is when i am starting the dovecot, it gave me an error "Unknown setting path" pointing to the line above. Tried to locate in the mentioned directory and could not find the file where the documentation said that dovecot will create it automatically, however i cannot find it.

Permission on private folder has been set to 770, owner and group has been change to postfix, but still the same.

Anyone with this problem and solved it?

sleddog · 12-28-2011, 06:50 AM

The error "Unknown setting path" suggests there is an error in your dovecot.conf.

Make sure you have uncommented the container that holds the path setting.

For example, it should be like this:

Code:

  socket listen {
    master {
      path = /var/spool/postfix/private/auth
    }
  }

And not like this:

Code:

  socket listen {
    #master {
      path = /var/spool/postfix/private/auth
    #}
  }

The latter will throw an "unknown setting" error.