Postfix/Dovecot – warning: SASL: Connect to private/auth failed: No such file or directory
Error: Postfix/Dovecot – warning: SASL: Connect to private/auth failed: No such file or directory
You have the following error messages in your mail log:eval(ez_write_tag([[728,90],’howtoforge_com-box-3′,’ezslot_10′,106,’0′,’0′]));
Aug 23 15:55:01 server1 postfix/smtpd[15194]: warning: SASL: Connect to private/auth failed: No such file or directory
Aug 23 15:55:01 server1 postfix/smtpd[15194]: fatal: no SASL authentication mechanisms
Aug 23 15:55:02 server1 postfix/master[3979]: warning: process /usr/libexec/postfix/smtpd pid 15194 exit status 1
Aug 23 15:55:02 server1 postfix/master[3979]: warning: /usr/libexec/postfix/smtpd: bad command startup -- throttling
eval(ez_write_tag([[728,90],’howtoforge_com-medrectangle-3′,’ezslot_11′,121,’0′,’0′]));
Solution
Open your dovecot.conf (/etc/dovecot.conf or /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf, depending on your distribution) and make sure you have the following lines in it:
[...] client { path = /var/spool/postfix/private/auth mode = 0660 user = postfix group = postfix } [...]
Restart Dovecot.
Then check if /var/spool/postfix/private/auth got created:
ls -l /var/spool/postfix/private/auth
Also make sure you have
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[...] queue_directory = /var/spool/postfix [...]
in /etc/postfix/main.cf. If not, add it and restart Postfix.