[Dovecot] Dovecot upgrade 1 to 2 on Debian Squeeze : broken /var/run/dovecot

[Si L]

Scratch this because this was set in my dovecot.conf.....  and had not made any difference .... 
Is the /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf used anymore, because dovecot is not listening on any ports !


I've looked on the wiki and only Basic Configuration is noted so I don't know if I should use:
service imap-login {
  chroot = login
  inet_listener imap {
    address = 127.0.0.1
    port = 3993

or some syntax.  Any body?

Off topic, Debian does not include the documentation directory with its packages:
# cd /usr/share/doc/dovecot/example-config
-su: cd: /usr/share/doc/dovecot/example-config: No such file or directory


Regards,
S

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On Tue, 25/2/14, Si L <sloewent at yahoo.com> wrote:

 Subject: Re: [Dovecot] Dovecot upgrade 1 to 2 on Debian Squeeze : broken /var/run/dovecot
 To: dovecot at dovecot.org
 Date: Tuesday, 25 February, 2014, 16:52
 
 Hi,
 
 Just noticed 
 
 mode = 0666
 
 should be set for auth-userdb
 
 however I see its not set in my converted dovecot.conf and
 think I should set this in the conf.d/10-master.conf, but I
 don't know which permissions should be secure and if secure
 permissions, then how should postfix interact with this or
 deliver to mail stores that are owned by xxx ?
 
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 On Tue, 25/2/14, Si L <sloewent at yahoo.com>
 wrote:
 
  Subject: [Dovecot] Dovecot upgrade 1 to 2 on Debian Squeeze
 : broken /var/run/dovecot
  To: dovecot at dovecot.org
  Date: Tuesday, 25 February, 2014, 16:44
  
  Hi,
  
   I just upgraded from version 1 to version on Debian
 Squeeze
  using their backports.
  
  Like I expected my dovecot1 config had to be converted
 using
  doveconf and this I did.
  
  However, I see problems with files inside directory:
  drwxr-xr-x 4 dovenull root 4096 Feb 25 20:35
  /var/run/dovecot
  
  All of them were created owned by root:root rw.
  
  I tried to changed, for example :
  chown postfix:dovecot /var/run/dovecot/auth-master
  but noticed when I restarted dovecot it reset the
  permissions back to root:root rw.
  
  Here's the version:
  # dovecot --version
  2.1.7
  
  Here's my slightly redacted conf.
  # grep -v ^# dovecot.conf|grep -v ^$
  auth_mechanisms = plain login
  auth_verbose = yes
  dict {
    quotadict =
  mysql:/etc/dovecot/dovecot-dict-quota.conf
  }
  disable_plaintext_auth = no
  first_valid_uid = 106
  log_timestamp = "%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S "
  mail_location = maildir:/var/xx/%d/%u/
  mail_plugins = quota
  mail_privileged_group = mail
  maildir_very_dirty_syncs = yes
  passdb {
    args = /etc/dovecot/dovecot-mysql.conf
    driver = sql
  }
  plugin {
    quota_rule = *:storage=262144:messages=20000
    quota_rule2 = Trash:storage=282144:messages=23000
  }
  service auth {
    unix_listener /var/spool/postfix/private/auth {
      group = postfix
      mode = 0660
      user = postfix
    }
    unix_listener auth-master {
      mode = 0600
      user = vmail
    }
    user = root
  }
  service imap-login {
    chroot = login
    inet_listener imap {
      address = 127.0.0.1
      port = 3993
    }
    inet_listener imaps {
      address = *
      port = 993
    }
    process_limit = 256
    process_min_avail = 24
    service_count = 1
    vsz_limit = 48 M
  }
  service pop3-login {
    chroot = login
    process_limit = 256
    process_min_avail = 24
    service_count = 1
    vsz_limit = 48 M
  }
  ssl = required
  ssl_ca = </etc/ssl/certs/xxx.combined_for_dovecot.pem
  ssl_cert = </etc/ssl/private/xx.xx.xx.crt
  ssl_cipher_list =
  TLSv1+HIGH:!SSLv2:RC4+MEDIUM:!aNULL:!eNULL:!3DES:@STRENGTH
  ssl_key = </etc/ssl/private/xx.xx.xx.key
  ssl_verify_client_cert = yes
  userdb {
    args = uid=5000 gid=5000 home=/var/xx/%d/%u
  allow_all_users=yes
    driver = static
  }
  userdb {
    args = /etc/dovecot/dovecot-mysql.conf
    driver = sql
  }
  valid_chroot_dirs = /var/xx
  protocol imap {
    mail_max_userip_connections = 96
    mail_plugins = quota imap_quota
  }
  protocol pop3 {
    pop3_uidl_format = %08Xu%08Xv
  }
  protocol lda {
    auth_socket_path = /var/run/dovecot/auth-master
    log_path =
    mail_plugins = sieve quota
    postmaster_address = xxxx at xxxxx
  }
  
  
  I really don't understand how I should make this work, and
  the after I read the docs on dovecot.org and googled I
  realised I was really lost getting this back up and runing
  :(
  
  I should be really grateful if somebody would give me some
  advice.
  
  Thanks, 
  Soph'