[Dovecot] error when using dovecot-lda as non root (vmail) user

[Timo Sirainen]

On 23.4.2012, at 14.40, Andreas Helmcke wrote:

> Am 23.04.2012 12:59, schrieb Timo Sirainen:
>> On 19.4.2012, at 19.09, Andreas Helmcke wrote:
>> 
>>> Apr 19 17:58:07 elablnmail02 dovecot: lda(ahelmcke): Debug: Namespace :
>>> type=private, prefix=, sep=, inbox=no, hidden=no, list=yes,
>>> subscriptions=yes location=maildir:/home/mail/user/ahelmcke
>> 
>> But what is this? You appear to have an empty namespace {} in your configs?
>> 
> nope.
> 
> You might check yourself; complete dovecot -n:

See if this changes the behavior:

service config {
  unix_listener config {
    mode = 0666
  }
}

I'd guess that makes the vmail work also? Although it still doesn't explain the difference between asking config from config process vs. getting it by executing doveconf.