On Sat, 24 Nov 2018 at 13:29, Timo Sirainen tss@iki.fi wrote:
On 24 Nov 2018, at 8.33, Odhiambo Washington odhiambo@gmail.com wrote:
I installed 2.3.4 and just used it with the config files for 2.3.3 without changing anything in the configuration. I then realized that the LDA was throwing errors.
2018-11-24 00:02:51 1gQIaw-000AZS-Bc : dovecot_virtual_delivery transport output: lda(john.doe@our.domain.name)Error: net_connect_unix(/var/run/dovecot//stats-writer) failed: Permission denied
I checked on the presence of the sockets in /var/run/dovecot:
srw------- 1 root wheel 0 Nov 24 09:07 stats-reader srw-rw---- 1 root dovecot 0 Nov 24 09:07 stats-writer
What user/group does dovecot_virtual_delivery run as?
It runs as the MTA user - mailnull.
Change the stats-writer socket's owner to be that user. For example:
service stats { unix_listener stats-writer { user = vmail } }
That makes sense.
Or alternatively change dovecot_virtual_delivery to use dovecot group.
That would not be possible because it will not have permissions to write the mail files.
I have tried to find any mention of stats-{writer|reader} in the example configs shipped with 2.3.4 and found nothing. I have backed-off 2.3.4 for now till I can figure out how to assign proper permissions to these sockets
- or just to figure out why by default, permission is being denied.
Looks like this is happening now because in earlier versions the dovecot-lda process wasn't sending any statistics.
BTW, was it an oversight that this config snippet is not documented with the example-config files? Or on the Wiki? Or my eyes are failing me? :-)
Thank you very much.
-- Best regards, Odhiambo WASHINGTON, Nairobi,KE +254 7 3200 0004/+254 7 2274 3223 "Oh, the cruft."