Permissions issue with Debian 8, dovecot 2.21, vpopmail

[Alexander Dalloz]

Am 08.02.2016 um 21:01 schrieb Stephen:
> There is a permissions issue in dovecot 2.21 in the ~/run directory
> (mine is /var/run/dovecot) at least in Debian 8.
>
> Files created by dovecot imap:
>
> srw------- 1 root    root 0 Feb  3 16:46 imap-hibernate
> srw------- 1 root    root 0 Feb  3 16:46 imap-master
>
> changed to make work:
>
> srw-rw-rw- 1 root    root 0 Feb  3 16:46 imap-hibernate
> srw-rw-rw- 1 root    root 0 Feb  3 16:46 imap-master
>
> Errors were reported in /var/log/dovecot.log which we use mainly for
> fail2ban (it gets huge, but ...)
>
> vpopmail version 5.4.33 with one patch
>
> I don't think this is a Debian issue ... possibly could be a vpopmail
> issue, but it's probably caused by the fact that imap daemons are
> running as vpopmail:
>
> vpopmail 30182  9187  0 15:02 ?        00:00:00 dovecot/imap

What purpose does vpopmail serve that dovecot alone does not? Isn't it 
just an ancient leftover from historic qmail times?

Alexander