IMAP hibernate feature committed

[Thomas Leuxner]

> http://hg.dovecot.org/dovecot-2.2/rev/64c73e6bd397

==> /var/log/dovecot/dovecot.log <==
Aug 25 09:42:07 nihlus dovecot: imap(tlx at leuxner.net): Error: net_connect_unix(/var/run/dovecot/imap-hibernate) failed: Permission denied
Aug 25 09:42:07 nihlus dovecot: imap(tlx at leuxner.net): Error: Couldn't hibernate imap client: Couldn't export state: Virtual mailboxes have no GUIDs
Aug 25 09:42:07 nihlus dovecot: imap(tlx at leuxner.net): Error: net_connect_unix(/var/run/dovecot/imap-hibernate) failed: Permission denied

$  l /var/run/dovecot/
total 8
srw------- 1 root     root       0 Aug 24 18:22 anvil
srw------- 1 root     root       0 Aug 24 18:22 anvil-auth-penalty
srw------- 1 dovecot  root       0 Aug 25 09:17 auth-client
srw------- 1 dovecot  root       0 Aug 25 09:17 auth-login
srw------- 1 root     root       0 Aug 25 09:17 auth-master
-rw------- 1 root     root      32 Aug  7 12:03 auth-token-secret.dat
srw-rw-rw- 1 dovecot  root       0 Aug 25 09:17 auth-userdb
srw------- 1 doveauth root       0 Aug 25 09:17 auth-worker
srw------- 1 root     root       0 Aug 25 09:17 config
srw------- 1 root     root       0 Aug 25 09:17 dict
srw------- 1 root     root       0 Aug 25 09:17 director-admin
srw------- 1 root     root       0 Aug 25 09:17 director-userdb
srw-rw-rw- 1 root     root       0 Aug 25 09:17 dns-client
srw------- 1 root     root       0 Aug 25 09:17 doveadm-server
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root     root      25 Aug 24 18:22 dovecot.conf -> /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf
drwxr-xr-x 2 root     root      40 Aug  7 12:03 empty
srw------- 1 root     root       0 Aug 25 09:17 imap-hibernate
srw------- 1 root     root       0 Aug 25 09:17 imap-master
srw-rw-rw- 1 root     root       0 Aug 25 09:17 imap-urlauth
srw------- 1 dovecot  root       0 Aug 25 09:17 imap-urlauth-worker
srw-rw-rw- 1 root     root       0 Aug 25 09:17 indexer
srw------- 1 dovecot  root       0 Aug 25 09:17 indexer-worker
srw------- 1 root     root       0 Aug 25 09:17 ipc
srw-rw-rw- 1 root     root       0 Aug 25 09:17 lmtp
srw------- 1 root     root       0 Aug 25 09:17 log-errors
drwxr-x--- 2 root     dovenull 120 Aug 25 09:17 login
-rw------- 1 root     root       6 Aug 24 18:22 master.pid
srw------- 1 root     root       0 Aug 25 09:17 replication-notify
prw------- 1 root     root       0 Aug 25 09:17 replication-notify-fifo
srw------- 1 dovecot  root       0 Aug 25 09:17 replicator
srw-rw-rw- 1 root     root       0 Aug 25 09:17 ssl-params
srw------- 1 root     root       0 Aug 25 09:17 stats
prw------- 1 vmail    root       0 Aug 25 09:43 stats-mail
drwxr-x--- 2 root     dovenull  80 Aug 25 09:17 token-login

The socket is created as ‚root‘ per default. Does it need to run under another user to mitigate the permissions issue?

Regards
Thomas
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