On Wed, 2011-03-16 at 08:18 +0000, John Connett wrote:
> > $ ls -l /var/run/dovecot/auth-client
> > Srw------- 1 root root 0 Mar 14 13:11 /var/run/dovecot/auth-client
..
> The problem is either with the instructions on the wiki or within
> dovecot. I will look at the source code to see if I can identify why the
> permissions in conf.d/10-master.conf are not being applied. The "service
> auth" part of conf.d/10-master.conf, stripped of comments, is:
>
> service auth {
> unix_listener auth-client {
> mode = 0660
> user = mail
> }
> unix_listener auth-userdb {
> }
> }
Check with doveconf that Dovecot really sees those settings:
doveconf service/auth
Also you didn't specify group for the auth-client, so you probably
should keep it 0600..
