I added

unix_listener auth-userdb { group = vmail mode = 0600 user = vmail }

to the configuration which seems to solve the issue. Is this the right solution?

Regards, Chris.

On Fri, Oct 14, 2011 at 2:42 PM, Chris Vanden Berghe <Chris@vandenberghe.org> wrote:

Hi all,

After upgrading to Ubuntu Server 11.10 my mail setup stopped working. The error message I get is:

lda: Error: userdb lookup: connect(/var/run/dovecot/auth-userdb) failed: Permission denied (euid=5000(vmail) egid=5000(vmail) missing +r perm: /var/run/dovecot/auth-userdb, euid is not dir owner)

Does anybody have an idea how to solve this?

Thanks, Chris.

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# 2.0.13: /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf # OS: Linux 3.0.0-12-generic x86_64 Ubuntu 11.10 ext3 auth_verbose = yes log_timestamp = "%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S " mail_location = maildir:/var/vmail/%u mail_privileged_group = mail maildir_stat_dirs = yes 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 passdb { args = /etc/dovecot/dovecot-sql.conf driver = sql } plugin { fts = squat fts_squat = partial=4 full=10 } protocols = imap service auth { unix_listener /var/spool/postfix/private/auth-client { group = postfix mode = 0660 user = postfix } unix_listener auth-master { group = vmail mode = 0600 user = vmail } } service imap-login { inet_listener imap { address = localhost port = 143 } inet_listener imaps { address = * port = 993 } } ssl_cert = </etc/ssl/private/dovecot.pem ssl_key = </etc/ssl/private/dovecot.pem userdb { args = uid=5000 gid=5000 home=/var/vmail/%u driver = static } protocol imap { mail_max_userip_connections = 50 mail_plugins = fts fts_squat } protocol lda { mail_plugins = sieve }