On 20 Apr 2019, at 14:05, Larry Rosenman via dovecot <dovecot@dovecot.org> wrote:
> service stats {
>   unix_listener stats-reader {
>     group = mail

Why would I change the group from the group the socket is using?

>     mode = 0666

That cannot possibly be best practice.

I'm not opening up any part of my mail stack to all processes.

>> # ls -ls /var/run/dovecot/stats-writer
>> 0 srw-rw----  1 dovecot  dovecot  0 Apr 20 04:34 /var/run/dovecot/stats-writer


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