[Dovecot] LDA/Postfix with quotas and without LMTP

[Timo Sirainen]

On Tue, 2011-10-18 at 17:52 +0300, Timo Sirainen wrote:
> On Sun, 2011-10-09 at 11:31 -0700, Steve Fatula wrote:
> > dovecot: lda: Error: userdb lookup: connect(/var/run/dovecot/auth-userdb) failed: Permission denied
> > 
> The possibilities are:
> 
> a) Start dovecot-lda so that the process belongs to extra group (e.g.
> dovecot) and make the socket rw for that group. I don't know if Postfix
> can do this for system users..
> 
> b) Use filesystem setgid bit for dovecot-lda
> 
> c) Run via sudo
> 
> The b) and c) are explained in wiki in the "multiple UIDs" section
> (although for setuid-root rather than setgid-dovecot).

Oh, and

d) With v2.1 this works automatically