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

[John Connett]

On Wed, 16 Mar 2011 23:25:08 -0000, John Connett <jrc at skylon.demon.co.uk>  
wrote:
> On Wed, 16 Mar 2011 16:31:43 -0000, Timo Sirainen <tss at iki.fi> wrote:
>
>> 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

Problem was all mine!  I didn't fully appreciate the configuration process  
and managed to end up with a dovecot.conf which didn't include the files  
 from conf.d ...

My apologies for the time wasting.