I’m running Dovecot 2.3.4 on FreeBSD 11.2 with qmail. In my mail log, I see messages like this on every delivery
Jan 8 10:30:02 v1 qmail: 1546961402.314222 delivery 533: success: lda(matt,)Error:_net_connect_unix(/var/run/dovecot/stats-writer)_failed:_Permission_denied/did_0+0+1/
Searching for this error, I found a message on a support forum for a different server that suggested adding this to dovecot.conf:
service stats { unix_listener stats-reader { user = vmail group = vmail mode = 0660 }
unix_listener stats-writer {
user = vmail
group = vmail
mode = 0660
}}
The person reporting the error said that this corrected it. But since I’m running qmail, I have no vmail user/group. I’m guessing that I need to replace user/group with the values that some mail delivery process is running with. I’ve tried a couple of things with no success. Any ideas?
$ doveconf -n # 2.3.4 (0ecbaf23d): /usr/local/etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf # Pigeonhole version 0.5.4 (60b0f48d) # OS: FreeBSD 11.2-RELEASE-p7 amd64 # Hostname: v1.redhorse.me auth_stats = yes auth_verbose = yes default_vsz_limit = 128 M lock_method = flock mail_location = maildir:~/Maildir mail_privileged_group = mail managesieve_notify_capability = mailto managesieve_sieve_capability = fileinto reject envelope encoded-character vacation subaddress comparator-i;ascii-numeric relational regex imap4flags copy include variables body enotify environment mailbox date index ihave duplicate mime foreverypart extracttext vnd.dovecot.pipe vnd.dovecot.execute namespace inbox { inbox = yes location = prefix = } passdb { args = imap driver = pam } plugin { recipient_delimiter = - sieve = file:~/sieve;active=~/.dovecot.sieve sieve_execute_bin_dir = /usr/local/lib/dovecot/sieve-pipe sieve_extensions = +vnd.dovecot.pipe +vnd.dovecot.execute sieve_pipe_bin_dir = /usr/local/lib/dovecot/sieve-pipe sieve_pipe_exec_timeout = 10s sieve_plugins = sieve_extprograms } postmaster_address = postmaster@redhorse.me protocols = imap service auth { unix_listener auth-master { group = qnofiles mode = 0660 user = alias } user = root } service imap-login { process_min_avail = 3 vsz_limit = 94 M } ssl_cert =
ls -l /var/run/dovecot total 20 srw------- 1 root wheel 0 Jan 8 10:29 anvil srw------- 1 root wheel 0 Jan 8 10:29 anvil-auth-penalty srw------- 1 dovecot wheel 0 Jan 8 10:29 auth-client srw------- 1 dovecot wheel 0 Jan 8 10:29 auth-login srw-rw---- 1 alias qnofiles 0 Jan 8 10:29 auth-master -rw------- 1 root wheel 32 Jan 8 10:29 auth-token-secret.dat srw-rw-rw- 1 dovecot wheel 0 Jan 8 10:29 auth-userdb srw------- 1 dovecot wheel 0 Jan 8 10:29 auth-worker srw------- 1 root wheel 0 Jan 8 10:29 config srw-rw---- 1 root dovecot 0 Jan 8 10:29 dict srw-rw---- 1 root dovecot 0 Jan 8 10:29 dict-async srw------- 1 root wheel 0 Jan 8 10:29 director-admin srw-rw-rw- 1 root wheel 0 Jan 8 10:29 dns-client srw------- 1 root wheel 0 Jan 8 10:29 doveadm-server lrwx------ 1 root wheel 35 Jan 8 10:29 dovecot.conf -> /usr/local/etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf drwxr-xr-x 2 root wheel 512 Jan 8 10:29 empty srw-rw---- 1 root dovecot 0 Jan 8 10:29 imap-hibernate srw------- 1 root wheel 0 Jan 8 10:29 imap-master srw-rw-rw- 1 root wheel 0 Jan 8 10:29 imap-urlauth srw------- 1 dovecot wheel 0 Jan 8 10:29 imap-urlauth-worker srw-rw-rw- 1 root wheel 0 Jan 8 10:29 indexer srw------- 1 dovecot wheel 0 Jan 8 10:29 indexer-worker srw------- 1 dovecot wheel 0 Jan 8 10:29 ipc srw------- 1 root wheel 0 Jan 8 10:29 log-errors drwxr-x--- 2 root dovenull 512 Jan 8 10:29 login srw------- 1 root wheel 0 Jan 8 10:29 master -rw------- 1 root wheel 6 Jan 8 10:29 master.pid srw------- 1 root wheel 0 Jan 8 10:29 old-stats prw------- 1 root wheel 0 Jan 8 10:29 old-stats-mail prw------- 1 root wheel 0 Jan 8 10:29 old-stats-user srw------- 1 root wheel 0 Jan 8 10:29 replication-notify prw------- 1 root wheel 0 Jan 8 10:29 replication-notify-fifo srw------- 1 dovecot wheel 0 Jan 8 10:29 replicator srw------- 1 root wheel 0 Jan 8 10:29 stats-reader srw-rw---- 1 root dovecot 0 Jan 8 10:29 stats-writer drwxr-x--- 2 root dovenull 512 Jan 8 10:29 token-login