On 3.11.2010, at 10.32, Ralf Hildebrandt wrote: >> Forgot to mention: This requires that base_dir hasn't been changed from the >> built-in default. But that can also be worked around with symlinks, e.g.: >> >> ln -s /var/run/dovecot /usr/local/var/run/dovecot > > Well, dovecot itself seems to be working. Would it log problems > accessing base_dir?
No. If it can't read the config socket (which it can't by default), it silently fallbacks to executing doveconf.