[Dovecot] exim and /var/run/dovecot/auth-client permissions

[Timo Sirainen]

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..