[Dovecot] dovecot authentication problem on OSX

[Todd Burroughs]

On Thu, 31 Mar 2005, Mac Shabba wrote:

> Compile and install went fine. I can also start dovecot, and telnet to
> it...but I can't login
> Even before I try to auth i get this in the log:
>>> localhost dovecot: Dovecot starting up
>>> localhost imap-login: opendir(".") failed when trying to get list of
> authentication servers: Permission denied

Check permissions on "login-dir"  (login_dir = /var/run/dovecot/login)
It most likely needs to be readable by the "dovecot" user.

If you set the group ownership to whatever group "dovecot" belongs to, 
then set the mode to 750, that should work and be safe.

Todd