I am trying to set up dovecot 0.99 running in RHEL 4 and I get the following error after starting dovecot: "Auth process died too early - shutting down, child 3116 (auth) returned error 127 localhost imap-login: fd_send(-1) failed: Broken pipe localhost pop3-login: fd_send(-1) failed: Broken pipe" The dovecot configuration file is as follows: protocols = pop3 pop3s imap imaps default_mail_env = mbox:/var/mail/%d/%n/:INDEX=/var/indexes/%d/%n client_workarounds = oe6-fetch-no-newmail outlook-idle outlook-pop3-no #pop3_uid1_format = %08Xu%08Xv #imap_client_workarounds = delay-newmail outlook-idle netscape-eoh #pop3_client_workarounds = outlook-no-nuls oe-ns-oeh login_dir = /var/run/dovecot-login login = imap login_executable = /usr/libexec/dovecot/imap-login login_user = dovecot login_process_size = 32 login = pop3 login_executable = /usr/libexec/dovecot/pop3-login max_mail_processes = 1024 imap_executable = /usr/libexec/dovecot/imap imap_process_size = 256 pop3_executable = /usr/libexec/dovecot/pop3 pop3_process_size = 256 auth = default auth_mechanisms = plain auth_userdb = passwd #auth_executable = /usr/libexec/dovecot/dovecot-auth #auth_process_size = 256 #auth_user = root Any possible solution
Error Log Falko, Here is what the var/log/maillog mail states: Dec 3 09:50:48 localhost dovecot: Dovecot starting up Dec 3 09:50:49 localhost dovecot: Auth process died too early - shutting down Dec 3 09:50:49 localhost dovecot: child 12405 (auth) returned error 127 Dec 3 09:50:49 localhost pop3-login: fd_send(-1) failed: Broken pipe Dec 3 09:50:49 localhost pop3-login: fd_send(-1) failed: Broken pipe Dec 3 09:51:12 localhost dovecot: Dovecot starting up Dec 3 09:51:13 localhost dovecot: Auth process died too early - shutting down Dec 3 09:51:13 localhost dovecot: child 12431 (auth) returned error 127 Dec 3 09:51:13 localhost pop3-login: fd_send(-1) failed: Broken pipe
Can you run Code: /usr/lib/dovecot/dovecot-auth and see if you get any errors (see http://markmail.org/message/7q7jrik...ipe+page:1+mid:7q7jrik4lcwqmwez+state:results )?