[Dovecot] sudo /etc/init.d/dovecot start doesn't work

[Sam Fung]

I've been trying to get dovecot working with postfix with virtual domain
setting. I noticed that if I started dovecot with "sudo /usr/sbin/dovecot",
everything would work fine. But if I started with "sudo /etc/init.d/dovecot
start", I would get the following permission error. I checked "ps -ef | grep
dovecot" and didn't find anything different.

Sep 29 16:54:35 localhost imap-login: Login: xyz at example.com [::ffff:
192.168.0.4 <http://192.168.0.4>]
Sep 29 16:54:36 localhost imap(xyz at example.com): mkdir_parents(/var/spool
/virtual_mailboxes/example.com/xyz/.imap/INBOX) failed: Permission denied

Here's the directory for storing virtual domain email.

[localhost ~]$ sudo ls -al /var/spool/virtual_mailboxes/example.com
total 24
drwx------ 3 vuser vuser 4096 Sep 29 16:43 .
drwxrwxr-x 3 root mail 4096 Sep 21 21:57 ..
drwx------ 3 vuser vuser 4096 Sep 29 16:55 xyz

[localhost ~]$ sudo ls -al /var/spool/virtual_mailboxes/example.com/xyz
total 32
drwx------ 3 vuser vuser 4096 Sep 29 16:55 .
drwx------ 3 vuser vuser 4096 Sep 29 16:43 ..
-rw------- 1 vuser vuser 1209 Sep 29 19:10 Inbox
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