> On 14 Aug 2017, at 18.16, Matt Simpson <dcl...@list.jmatt.net> wrote:
>
>
>> On Aug 14, 2017, at 5:42 AM, Aki Tuomi <aki.tu...@dovecot.fi> wrote:
>>
>> Hi!
>>
>> We are open for any feedback, questions or comments for this service.
>>
>
> Two questions. First one is I guess just a newbie configuration question.
> My existing dovecot.conf ends with
> !include conf.d/*.conf
> !include_try local.conf
>
> I didn’t have a local.conf, so I decided that would be a good place to put
> this. I created it with
> auth_stats=yes
> mail_plugins = $mail_plugins stats
> stats_carbon_server = 94.237.81.63
> stats_carbon_server = [2a04:3542:1000:910:acc1:5bff:fe5e:8c2]
> stats_carbon_name = RedHorseMail
> plugin {
> stats_refresh = 30s
> }
>
>
> At startup, I get error (warning?)
>
> Aug 14 10:50:38 v1 dovecot: config: Warning:
> /usr/local/etc/dovecot/local.conf line 2: Global setting mail_plugins won't
> change the setting inside an earlier filter at
> /usr/local/etc/dovecot/conf.d/15-lda.conf line 48 (if this is intentional,
> avoid this warning by moving the global setting before
> /usr/local/etc/dovecot/conf.d/15-lda.conf line 48)
>
> I sort of understand what this is telling me, that my new mail_plugins
> directive clashes with the previous one in 15-lda.conf, which is
> mail_plugins = $mail_plugins sieve
>
This means that you have mail_plugins defined inside plugin {} protocol {} or
any other filter section. Depending on where it is the later global
mail_plugins setting will be ignored when that filter is matched. In this case
it seems that it is ignored for lda deliveries.
> But aren’t both of these commands concatenations, which effectively add more
> plugins to the existing $mail_plugins string, so that they’re cumulative and
> not really conflicting? Can I just ignore this message? Is there a way to
> make it go away?
move the "mail_plugins = $mail_plugins stats" to dovecot.conf before loading
any files from conf.d
> It appears that, in spite of the warning, the stats code is activating, or
> attempting to activate, which brings me to my second question.
>
> In my dovecot log, I see
> Error: stats: open(/var/run/dovecot/stats-mail) failed: Permission denied
>
> /var/run/dovecot/stats-mail does not exist, I assume it is trying to create
> it and being denied by permissions on /var/run/dovecot, which is
> drwxr-xr-x 5 root wheel 1024 Aug 14 10:51 dovecot
>
> Do I need to change ownership of that directory to the dovecot user?
dovecot user needs to be able to create files to that folder.
Sami
