I do believe that imap reader processes write stats as the *USER*. 



On Sat, Apr 20, 2019 at 3:41 PM @lbutlr via dovecot <dovecot@dovecot.org> wrote:
On 20 Apr 2019, at 14:21, Larry Rosenman via dovecot <dovecot@dovecot.org> wrote:
> Then figure out what user/group needs the access and set the perms.

Well, stats-write has an owner and group of dovecot, as I showed.

 dovecot  dovecot  0 Apr 20 04:34 /var/run/dovecot/stats-writer


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