On 05.11.2017 22:29, Jeff Abrahamson wrote: > Doh. Yes, that is why the file wasn't being read. Thanks. > > It turned out, moveover, that to get the inet listener to start, I > needed to do a restart, not just a reload (sudo service dovecot > reload). I'm not sure why that should be. But it's now working. > > > Meanwhile, I started seeing errors like this when I check mail: > > Nov 5 20:57:06 nantes-1 dovecot: imap(jeff): Error: stats: > open(/var/run/dovecot/stats-mail) failed: Permission denied > > The comments on the wiki page tell me to make this socket mode 600 and > owned by the user that my mail process runs as. I think this means > dovecot. (I tried dovenull, that was wrong.) > It means 'vmail', not 'dovecot'. If you are using real system users, you probably need to set it as 0666.
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