[Devil-Linux-discuss] Postfix and Dovecot SASL startup catch-22

[Dick M. <di...@li...>]

I've been meaning to point this out for a while; I don't reboot very often so 
it's not a big priority.

To use dovecot SASL with postfix you need to start dovecot first.  However 
dovecot needs to create a socket in postfix jail (/var/spool/postfix/private) 
which, of course, doesn't exist until postfix is started.

What I notice is that postfix doesn't complain if /var/spool/postfix/private 
exists when it is started.

I'm thinking that the dovecot init.d script could mkdir -p this directory before 
starting (perhaps commented out since most users won't need it).

Dick