On 05.11.2017 22:29, Jeff Abrahamson wrote:
Doh. Yes, that is why the file wasn't being read. Thanks.
It turned out, moveover, that to get the inet listener to start, I needed to do a restart, not just a reload (sudo service dovecot reload). I'm not sure why that should be. But it's now working.
Meanwhile, I started seeing errors like this when I check mail:
Nov 5 20:57:06 nantes-1 dovecot: imap(jeff): Error: stats: open(/var/run/dovecot/stats-mail) failed: Permission denied
The comments on the wiki page tell me to make this socket mode 600 and owned by the user that my mail process runs as. I think this means dovecot. (I tried dovenull, that was wrong.)
It means 'vmail', not 'dovecot'. If you are using real system users, you probably need to set it as 0666.
Aki