[vPostMaster] Vpostmaster

[Sean Reifschneider]

On Sun, Sep 16, 2007 at 01:48:52PM -0400, Sam Povilus wrote:
>I had vpostmaster working yesterday, but then i started installing 
>openvpn and messing with the firewall and routing tables. today i tried 
>to get mail via imap through dovecot and it wont connect. i looked at 
>the maiallog file and it says:
>
>dovecot: auth(defualt): pgsql: connect failes to vpostmaster: coulde not 
>connect to server: Permission denied.
>                                    is the server running on host 
>localhost and accepting TCP/ip connections on port 5432?

Since you mention firewalling, I'd bet that you've broken the firewall
rules allowing connections to tcp port 5432.  "psql -d vpostmaster" doesn't
use a TCP socket.

Try reverting your changes and see if that resolves it.  You probably need
to allow local connections, as a guess.

Sean
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