On Nov 29, 2009, at 1:24 PM, Frank Cusack wrote: > dovecot-1.2.8 creates /var/run/dovecot mode 750.
No, it creates it with mode 0755. Did you compile from sources? Are you sure it's 0750 if you rm -rf the directory and start "dovecot" binary directly (instead of e.g. some init script creating it)?
