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Jeff Abrahamson

2 Nov 2017 2 Nov '17

11:22 p.m.

I'd like to monitor my dovecot instance (running on ubuntu 16.04) using telegraf.

[T] jeff@nantes-1:log $ dovecot --version
2.2.22 (fe789d2)
[T] jeff@nantes-1:log $

To do that, I think I need to use the stats module and get it to talk on port 24242. I've not found enough documentation on this module to feel really comfortable with it, so it doesn't surprise me that I don't have it working. But I'd much appreciate if someone could point me in the right direction.

In particular, nothing listens on 24242.

# This file is based on https://wiki2.dovecot.org/Statistics

# Dovecot v2.1+ supports gathering statistics (CPU, disk usage, etc.) # from mail processes (IMAP, POP3, LMTP, etc.) to the stats # process. The stats process can later be queried what's going on in # the system. With imap_stats plugin you can get per-command level # statistics for IMAP commands. # # There are different "zoom levels" you can look at the statistics: # # * command: Per-IMAP command # * session: Per IMAP/POP3 connection # * user: Per user (all of user's sessions summed up) # * domain: Per domain (all of domain's users summed up) # * ip: Per IP address (all sessions from the IP summed up) # * global: Everything summed up (2.2.16+)

mail_plugins = $mail_plugins stats protocol imap { mail_plugins = $mail_plugins imap_stats } plugin { # how often to session statistics (must be set) stats_refresh = 30 secs # track per-IMAP command statistics (optional) stats_track_cmds = yes }

# You'll also need to give enough permissions for mail processes to be # able to write to stats-mail fifo. For example if you use a single # "vmail" user for mail access: service stats { fifo_listener stats-mail { user = vmail mode = 0600 } }

# Memory usage configuration

# The stats process attempts to keep memory usage below a specified # amount. This value is only approximate because of extra overhead # caused by malloc() itself.

stats_memory_limit = 16 M

# Once the memory limit is reached, oldest statistics are freed from # memory. Different statistics levels have different timeout limits, # which are configured in:

stats_command_min_time = 1 mins stats_domain_min_time = 12 hours stats_ip_min_time = 12 hours stats_session_min_time = 15 mins stats_user_min_time = 1 hours

service stats { inet_listener { address = 127.0.0.1 port = 24242 } }

Thanks in advance.

Jeff Abrahamson +33 6 24 40 01 57 +44 7920 594 255

http://p27.eu/jeff/

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Aki Tuomi

3 Nov 3 Nov

8:41 a.m.

Hi!

To add inet listener for stats, do

service stats { inet_listener { port = 24242 } }

Aki

On 02.11.2017 23:22, Jeff Abrahamson wrote:

...

I'd like to monitor my dovecot instance (running on ubuntu 16.04) using telegraf.
[T] jeff@nantes-1:log $ dovecot --version
2.2.22 (fe789d2)
[T] jeff@nantes-1:log $
To do that, I think I need to use the stats module and get it to talk on port 24242. I've not found enough documentation on this module to feel really comfortable with it, so it doesn't surprise me that I don't have it working. But I'd much appreciate if someone could point me in the right direction.

In particular, nothing listens on 24242.

    # This file is based on https://wiki2.dovecot.org/Statistics

    # Dovecot v2.1+ supports gathering statistics (CPU, disk usage, etc.) # from mail processes (IMAP, POP3, LMTP, etc.) to the stats # process. The stats process can later be queried what's going on in # the system. With imap_stats plugin you can get per-command level # statistics for IMAP commands. # # There are different "zoom levels" you can look at the statistics: # # * command: Per-IMAP command # * session: Per IMAP/POP3 connection # * user: Per user (all of user's sessions summed up) # * domain: Per domain (all of domain's users summed up) # * ip: Per IP address (all sessions from the IP summed up) # * global: Everything summed up (2.2.16+)

    mail_plugins = $mail_plugins stats protocol imap { mail_plugins = $mail_plugins imap_stats } plugin { # how often to session statistics (must be set) stats_refresh = 30 secs # track per-IMAP command statistics (optional) stats_track_cmds = yes }

    # You'll also need to give enough permissions for mail processes to be # able to write to stats-mail fifo. For example if you use a single # "vmail" user for mail access: service stats { fifo_listener stats-mail { user = vmail mode = 0600 } }

    # Memory usage configuration

    # The stats process attempts to keep memory usage below a specified # amount. This value is only approximate because of extra overhead # caused by malloc() itself.

    stats_memory_limit = 16 M

    # Once the memory limit is reached, oldest statistics are freed from # memory. Different statistics levels have different timeout limits, # which are configured in:

    stats_command_min_time = 1 mins stats_domain_min_time = 12 hours stats_ip_min_time = 12 hours stats_session_min_time = 15 mins stats_user_min_time = 1 hours

    service stats { inet_listener { address = 127.0.0.1 port = 24242 } }

Thanks in advance.

Steffen Kaiser

9:06 a.m.

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On Thu, 2 Nov 2017, Jeff Abrahamson wrote:

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In particular, nothing listens on 24242.

service stats { inet_listener { address = 127.0.0.1 port = 24242 } }

my conf looks almost identitical. This should do the trick, IMHO.

check "doveconf -n" to see, if you have a typo somewhere or any errors show up. Second check out the error log (there might be (re)bind failures). Third, make sure you have restarted Dovecot.

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Jeff Abrahamson

5:19 p.m.

Thanks for your suggestions, Steffen.

Running doveconf -n shows no errors and also, sadly, no mention of the stats listener:

╭╴ (master=)╶╮
╰ [T] jeff@nantes-1:p27 $ doveconf -n
# 2.2.22 (fe789d2): /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf
# Pigeonhole version 0.4.13 (7b14904)
# OS: Linux 4.4.0-97-generic x86_64 Ubuntu 16.04.3 LTS
auth_mechanisms = plain login
auth_socket_path = /var/run/dovecot/auth-userdb
mail_location = maildir:~/Maildir
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
namespace inbox {
  inbox = yes
  location =
  mailbox Drafts {
    special_use = \Drafts
  }
  mailbox Junk {
    special_use = \Junk
  }
  mailbox Sent {
    special_use = \Sent
  }
  mailbox "Sent Messages" {
    special_use = \Sent
  }
  mailbox Trash {
    special_use = \Trash
  }
  prefix =
}
passdb {
  driver = pam
}
plugin {
  sieve = ~/.dovecot.sieve
  sieve_dir = ~/sieve
}
protocols = imap sieve
service auth {
  unix_listener /var/spool/postfix/private/auth {
    group = postfix
    mode = 0666
    user = postfix
  }
  unix_listener /var/spool/postfix/private/dovecot-auth {
    group = postfix
    mode = 0660
    user = postfix
  }
}
service imap-login {
  inet_listener imaps {
    port = 993
    ssl = yes
  }
}
ssl_cert = </etc/dovecot/dovecot.pem
ssl_cipher_list =
EDH+CAMELLIA:EDH+aRSA:EECDH+aRSA+AESGCM:EECDH+aRSA+SHA384:EECDH+aRSA+SHA256:EECDH:+CAMELLIA256:+AES256:+CAMELLIA128:+AES128:+SSLv3:!aNULL:!eNULL:!LOW:!3DES:!MD5:!EXP:!PSK:!DSS:!RC4:!SEED:!ECDSA:CAMELLIA256-SHA:AES256-SHA:CAMELLIA128-SHA:AES128-SHA
ssl_key = </etc/dovecot/private/dovecot.pem
ssl_protocols = !SSLv2 !SSLv3
userdb {
  driver = passwd
}
protocol lda {
  deliver_log_format = msgid=%m: %$
  mail_plugins = sieve
  postmaster_address = postmaster
  quota_full_tempfail = yes
  rejection_reason = Your message to <%t> was automatically
rejected:%n%r
}
protocol imap {
  imap_client_workarounds = delay-newmail
  mail_max_userip_connections = 20
}
protocol pop3 {
  mail_max_userip_connections = 10
  pop3_client_workarounds = outlook-no-nuls oe-ns-eoh
}
╭╴ (master=)╶╮
╰ [T] jeff@nantes-1:p27 $

Here I have a tail -f /var/log/mail.log and mail.err running in the background so we can see the results of the restart:

[T] jeff@nantes-1:conf.d $ ls -l
total 136
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  5301 Aug 25 15:26 10-auth.conf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  1893 Mar 16  2016 10-director.conf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  2805 Mar 16  2016 10-logging.conf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 16172 Aug 25 15:35 10-mail.conf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  3547 Aug 25 15:40 10-master.conf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  2307 Aug 25 16:27 10-ssl.conf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root   291 Apr 11  2017 10-tcpwrapper.conf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  1668 Mar 16  2016 15-lda.conf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  2808 Mar 16  2016 15-mailboxes.conf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  3295 Mar 16  2016 20-imap.conf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  2398 Apr 11  2017 20-managesieve.conf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  4109 Aug 25 15:28 20-pop3.conf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root   676 Mar 16  2016 90-acl.conf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root   292 Mar 16  2016 90-plugin.conf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  2502 Mar 16  2016 90-quota.conf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  6822 Apr 11  2017 90-sieve.conf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  1829 Apr 11  2017 90-sieve-extprograms.conf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  1856 Nov  3 16:11 91-stats
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  1430 Oct 31 16:33 99-mail-stack-delivery.conf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root   499 Mar 16  2016 auth-checkpassword.conf.ext
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root   489 Mar 16  2016 auth-deny.conf.ext
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root   343 Mar 16  2016 auth-dict.conf.ext
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root   561 Mar 16  2016 auth-master.conf.ext
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root   515 Mar 16  2016 auth-passwdfile.conf.ext
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root   788 Mar 16  2016 auth-sql.conf.ext
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root   611 Mar 16  2016 auth-static.conf.ext
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  2185 Mar 16  2016 auth-system.conf.ext
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root   330 Mar 16  2016 auth-vpopmail.conf.ext
[T] jeff@nantes-1:conf.d $ sudo service dovecot restart
Nov  3 16:14:26 nantes-1 dovecot: master: Warning: Killed with
signal 15 (by pid=5845 uid=0 code=kill)
Nov  3 16:14:26 nantes-1 dovecot: imap(jeff): Server shutting down.
in=3514 out=2605
Nov  3 16:14:26 nantes-1 dovecot: master: Dovecot v2.2.22 (fe789d2)
starting up for imap, sieve (core dumps disabled)
[T] jeff@nantes-1:conf.d $

No errors there, either.

And, just to be clear that I'm not missing anything:

╭╴ (master=)╶╮
╰ [T] jeff@nantes-1:p27 $ netstat -a | grep 242
╭╴ (master=)╶╮
╰ 1,[T] jeff@nantes-1:p27 $ doveconf -n | grep stat
╭╴ (master=)╶╮
╰ 1,[T] jeff@nantes-1:p27 $

The file 91-stats contains the contents I pasted in my earlier mail. I'm a bit unclear what to check next.

Jeff

On 03/11/17 08:06, Steffen Kaiser wrote:

...

On Thu, 2 Nov 2017, Jeff Abrahamson wrote:

...
In particular, nothing listens on 24242.

...
service stats { inet_listener { address = 127.0.0.1 port = 24242 } }

my conf looks almost identitical. This should do the trick, IMHO.

check "doveconf -n" to see, if you have a typo somewhere or any errors show up. Second check out the error log (there might be (re)bind failures). Third, make sure you have restarted Dovecot.

-- Steffen Kaiser

Jeff Abrahamson +33 6 24 40 01 57 +44 7920 594 255

http://p27.eu/jeff/

Aki Tuomi

5:50 p.m.

You need to add the stats listener, by yourself.

Aki

...

On November 3, 2017 at 5:19 PM Jeff Abrahamson jeff@p27.eu wrote:

Thanks for your suggestions, Steffen.

Running doveconf -n shows no errors and also, sadly, no mention of the stats listener:

╭╴ (master=)╶╮
╰ [T] jeff@nantes-1:p27 $ doveconf -n
# 2.2.22 (fe789d2): /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf
# Pigeonhole version 0.4.13 (7b14904)
# OS: Linux 4.4.0-97-generic x86_64 Ubuntu 16.04.3 LTS
auth_mechanisms = plain login
auth_socket_path = /var/run/dovecot/auth-userdb
mail_location = maildir:~/Maildir
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
namespace inbox {
  inbox = yes
  location =
  mailbox Drafts {
    special_use = \Drafts
  }
  mailbox Junk {
    special_use = \Junk
  }
  mailbox Sent {
    special_use = \Sent
  }
  mailbox "Sent Messages" {
    special_use = \Sent
  }
  mailbox Trash {
    special_use = \Trash
  }
  prefix =
}
passdb {
  driver = pam
}
plugin {
  sieve = ~/.dovecot.sieve
  sieve_dir = ~/sieve
}
protocols = imap sieve
service auth {
  unix_listener /var/spool/postfix/private/auth {
    group = postfix
    mode = 0666
    user = postfix
  }
  unix_listener /var/spool/postfix/private/dovecot-auth {
    group = postfix
    mode = 0660
    user = postfix
  }
}
service imap-login {
  inet_listener imaps {
    port = 993
    ssl = yes
  }
}
ssl_cert = </etc/dovecot/dovecot.pem
ssl_cipher_list =
EDH+CAMELLIA:EDH+aRSA:EECDH+aRSA+AESGCM:EECDH+aRSA+SHA384:EECDH+aRSA+SHA256:EECDH:+CAMELLIA256:+AES256:+CAMELLIA128:+AES128:+SSLv3:!aNULL:!eNULL:!LOW:!3DES:!MD5:!EXP:!PSK:!DSS:!RC4:!SEED:!ECDSA:CAMELLIA256-SHA:AES256-SHA:CAMELLIA128-SHA:AES128-SHA
ssl_key = </etc/dovecot/private/dovecot.pem
ssl_protocols = !SSLv2 !SSLv3
userdb {
  driver = passwd
}
protocol lda {
  deliver_log_format = msgid=%m: %$
  mail_plugins = sieve
  postmaster_address = postmaster
  quota_full_tempfail = yes
  rejection_reason = Your message to <%t> was automatically
rejected:%n%r
}
protocol imap {
  imap_client_workarounds = delay-newmail
  mail_max_userip_connections = 20
}
protocol pop3 {
  mail_max_userip_connections = 10
  pop3_client_workarounds = outlook-no-nuls oe-ns-eoh
}
╭╴ (master=)╶╮
╰ [T] jeff@nantes-1:p27 $

Here I have a tail -f /var/log/mail.log and mail.err running in the background so we can see the results of the restart:

[T] jeff@nantes-1:conf.d $ ls -l
total 136
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  5301 Aug 25 15:26 10-auth.conf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  1893 Mar 16  2016 10-director.conf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  2805 Mar 16  2016 10-logging.conf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 16172 Aug 25 15:35 10-mail.conf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  3547 Aug 25 15:40 10-master.conf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  2307 Aug 25 16:27 10-ssl.conf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root   291 Apr 11  2017 10-tcpwrapper.conf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  1668 Mar 16  2016 15-lda.conf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  2808 Mar 16  2016 15-mailboxes.conf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  3295 Mar 16  2016 20-imap.conf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  2398 Apr 11  2017 20-managesieve.conf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  4109 Aug 25 15:28 20-pop3.conf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root   676 Mar 16  2016 90-acl.conf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root   292 Mar 16  2016 90-plugin.conf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  2502 Mar 16  2016 90-quota.conf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  6822 Apr 11  2017 90-sieve.conf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  1829 Apr 11  2017 90-sieve-extprograms.conf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  1856 Nov  3 16:11 91-stats
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  1430 Oct 31 16:33 99-mail-stack-delivery.conf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root   499 Mar 16  2016 auth-checkpassword.conf.ext
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root   489 Mar 16  2016 auth-deny.conf.ext
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root   343 Mar 16  2016 auth-dict.conf.ext
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root   561 Mar 16  2016 auth-master.conf.ext
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root   515 Mar 16  2016 auth-passwdfile.conf.ext
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root   788 Mar 16  2016 auth-sql.conf.ext
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root   611 Mar 16  2016 auth-static.conf.ext
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  2185 Mar 16  2016 auth-system.conf.ext
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root   330 Mar 16  2016 auth-vpopmail.conf.ext
[T] jeff@nantes-1:conf.d $ sudo service dovecot restart
Nov  3 16:14:26 nantes-1 dovecot: master: Warning: Killed with
signal 15 (by pid=5845 uid=0 code=kill)
Nov  3 16:14:26 nantes-1 dovecot: imap(jeff): Server shutting down.
in=3514 out=2605
Nov  3 16:14:26 nantes-1 dovecot: master: Dovecot v2.2.22 (fe789d2)
starting up for imap, sieve (core dumps disabled)
[T] jeff@nantes-1:conf.d $

No errors there, either.

And, just to be clear that I'm not missing anything:

╭╴ (master=)╶╮
╰ [T] jeff@nantes-1:p27 $ netstat -a | grep 242
╭╴ (master=)╶╮
╰ 1,[T] jeff@nantes-1:p27 $ doveconf -n | grep stat
╭╴ (master=)╶╮
╰ 1,[T] jeff@nantes-1:p27 $

The file 91-stats contains the contents I pasted in my earlier mail. I'm a bit unclear what to check next.

Jeff

On 03/11/17 08:06, Steffen Kaiser wrote:

...

On Thu, 2 Nov 2017, Jeff Abrahamson wrote:

...
In particular, nothing listens on 24242.

...
service stats { inet_listener { address = 127.0.0.1 port = 24242 } }

my conf looks almost identitical. This should do the trick, IMHO.

check "doveconf -n" to see, if you have a typo somewhere or any errors show up. Second check out the error log (there might be (re)bind failures). Third, make sure you have restarted Dovecot.

-- Steffen Kaiser

Jeff Abrahamson +33 6 24 40 01 57 +44 7920 594 255

http://p27.eu/jeff/

Jeff Abrahamson

6:35 p.m.

Sorry, Aki, I don't follow you. Did I do it wrong in the file 91-stats that I shared in my original mail (attached here)?

Jeff

On 03/11/17 16:50, Aki Tuomi wrote:

...

You need to add the stats listener, by yourself.

Aki

...

On November 3, 2017 at 5:19 PM Jeff Abrahamson jeff@p27.eu wrote:

Thanks for your suggestions, Steffen.

Running doveconf -n shows no errors and also, sadly, no mention of the stats listener:

╭╴ (master=)╶╮
╰ [T] jeff@nantes-1:p27 $ doveconf -n
# 2.2.22 (fe789d2): /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf
# Pigeonhole version 0.4.13 (7b14904)
# OS: Linux 4.4.0-97-generic x86_64 Ubuntu 16.04.3 LTS
auth_mechanisms = plain login
auth_socket_path = /var/run/dovecot/auth-userdb
mail_location = maildir:~/Maildir
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
namespace inbox {
  inbox = yes
  location =
  mailbox Drafts {
    special_use = \Drafts
  }
  mailbox Junk {
    special_use = \Junk
  }
  mailbox Sent {
    special_use = \Sent
  }
  mailbox "Sent Messages" {
    special_use = \Sent
  }
  mailbox Trash {
    special_use = \Trash
  }
  prefix =
}
passdb {
  driver = pam
}
plugin {
  sieve = ~/.dovecot.sieve
  sieve_dir = ~/sieve
}
protocols = imap sieve
service auth {
  unix_listener /var/spool/postfix/private/auth {
    group = postfix
    mode = 0666
    user = postfix
  }
  unix_listener /var/spool/postfix/private/dovecot-auth {
    group = postfix
    mode = 0660
    user = postfix
  }
}
service imap-login {
  inet_listener imaps {
    port = 993
    ssl = yes
  }
}
ssl_cert = </etc/dovecot/dovecot.pem
ssl_cipher_list =
EDH+CAMELLIA:EDH+aRSA:EECDH+aRSA+AESGCM:EECDH+aRSA+SHA384:EECDH+aRSA+SHA256:EECDH:+CAMELLIA256:+AES256:+CAMELLIA128:+AES128:+SSLv3:!aNULL:!eNULL:!LOW:!3DES:!MD5:!EXP:!PSK:!DSS:!RC4:!SEED:!ECDSA:CAMELLIA256-SHA:AES256-SHA:CAMELLIA128-SHA:AES128-SHA
ssl_key = </etc/dovecot/private/dovecot.pem
ssl_protocols = !SSLv2 !SSLv3
userdb {
  driver = passwd
}
protocol lda {
  deliver_log_format = msgid=%m: %$
  mail_plugins = sieve
  postmaster_address = postmaster
  quota_full_tempfail = yes
  rejection_reason = Your message to <%t> was automatically
rejected:%n%r
}
protocol imap {
  imap_client_workarounds = delay-newmail
  mail_max_userip_connections = 20
}
protocol pop3 {
  mail_max_userip_connections = 10
  pop3_client_workarounds = outlook-no-nuls oe-ns-eoh
}
╭╴ (master=)╶╮
╰ [T] jeff@nantes-1:p27 $

Here I have a tail -f /var/log/mail.log and mail.err running in the background so we can see the results of the restart:

[T] jeff@nantes-1:conf.d $ ls -l
total 136
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  5301 Aug 25 15:26 10-auth.conf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  1893 Mar 16  2016 10-director.conf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  2805 Mar 16  2016 10-logging.conf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 16172 Aug 25 15:35 10-mail.conf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  3547 Aug 25 15:40 10-master.conf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  2307 Aug 25 16:27 10-ssl.conf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root   291 Apr 11  2017 10-tcpwrapper.conf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  1668 Mar 16  2016 15-lda.conf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  2808 Mar 16  2016 15-mailboxes.conf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  3295 Mar 16  2016 20-imap.conf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  2398 Apr 11  2017 20-managesieve.conf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  4109 Aug 25 15:28 20-pop3.conf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root   676 Mar 16  2016 90-acl.conf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root   292 Mar 16  2016 90-plugin.conf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  2502 Mar 16  2016 90-quota.conf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  6822 Apr 11  2017 90-sieve.conf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  1829 Apr 11  2017 90-sieve-extprograms.conf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  1856 Nov  3 16:11 91-stats
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  1430 Oct 31 16:33 99-mail-stack-delivery.conf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root   499 Mar 16  2016 auth-checkpassword.conf.ext
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root   489 Mar 16  2016 auth-deny.conf.ext
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root   343 Mar 16  2016 auth-dict.conf.ext
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root   561 Mar 16  2016 auth-master.conf.ext
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root   515 Mar 16  2016 auth-passwdfile.conf.ext
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root   788 Mar 16  2016 auth-sql.conf.ext
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root   611 Mar 16  2016 auth-static.conf.ext
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  2185 Mar 16  2016 auth-system.conf.ext
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root   330 Mar 16  2016 auth-vpopmail.conf.ext
[T] jeff@nantes-1:conf.d $ sudo service dovecot restart
Nov  3 16:14:26 nantes-1 dovecot: master: Warning: Killed with
signal 15 (by pid=5845 uid=0 code=kill)
Nov  3 16:14:26 nantes-1 dovecot: imap(jeff): Server shutting down.
in=3514 out=2605
Nov  3 16:14:26 nantes-1 dovecot: master: Dovecot v2.2.22 (fe789d2)
starting up for imap, sieve (core dumps disabled)
[T] jeff@nantes-1:conf.d $

No errors there, either.

And, just to be clear that I'm not missing anything:

╭╴ (master=)╶╮
╰ [T] jeff@nantes-1:p27 $ netstat -a | grep 242
╭╴ (master=)╶╮
╰ 1,[T] jeff@nantes-1:p27 $ doveconf -n | grep stat
╭╴ (master=)╶╮
╰ 1,[T] jeff@nantes-1:p27 $

The file 91-stats contains the contents I pasted in my earlier mail. I'm a bit unclear what to check next.

Jeff

On 03/11/17 08:06, Steffen Kaiser wrote:

...

On Thu, 2 Nov 2017, Jeff Abrahamson wrote:

...
In particular, nothing listens on 24242. service stats { inet_listener { address = 127.0.0.1 port = 24242 } } my conf looks almost identitical. This should do the trick, IMHO.

check "doveconf -n" to see, if you have a typo somewhere or any errors show up. Second check out the error log (there might be (re)bind failures). Third, make sure you have restarted Dovecot.

-- Steffen Kaiser

Jeff Abrahamson +33 6 24 40 01 57 +44 7920 594 255

http://p27.eu/jeff/

Jeff Abrahamson +33 6 24 40 01 57 +44 7920 594 255

http://p27.eu/jeff/

Mark Moseley

6:43 p.m.

On Fri, Nov 3, 2017 at 9:35 AM, Jeff Abrahamson jeff@p27.eu wrote:

...

Sorry, Aki, I don't follow you. Did I do it wrong in the file 91-stats that I shared in my original mail (attached here)?

Jeff

On 03/11/17 16:50, Aki Tuomi wrote:

...
You need to add the stats listener, by yourself.

Aki

...
On November 3, 2017 at 5:19 PM Jeff Abrahamson jeff@p27.eu wrote:

Thanks for your suggestions, Steffen.

Running doveconf -n shows no errors and also, sadly, no mention of the stats listener:
╭╴ (master=)╶╮
╰ [T] jeff@nantes-1:p27 $ doveconf -n
# 2.2.22 (fe789d2): /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf
# Pigeonhole version 0.4.13 (7b14904)
# OS: Linux 4.4.0-97-generic x86_64 Ubuntu 16.04.3 LTS
auth_mechanisms = plain login
auth_socket_path = /var/run/dovecot/auth-userdb
mail_location = maildir:~/Maildir
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
namespace inbox {
  inbox = yes
  location =
  mailbox Drafts {
    special_use = \Drafts
  }
  mailbox Junk {
    special_use = \Junk
  }
  mailbox Sent {
    special_use = \Sent
  }
  mailbox "Sent Messages" {
    special_use = \Sent
  }
  mailbox Trash {
    special_use = \Trash
  }
  prefix =
}
passdb {
  driver = pam
}
plugin {
  sieve = ~/.dovecot.sieve
  sieve_dir = ~/sieve
}
protocols = imap sieve
service auth {
  unix_listener /var/spool/postfix/private/auth {
    group = postfix
    mode = 0666
    user = postfix
  }
  unix_listener /var/spool/postfix/private/dovecot-auth {
    group = postfix
    mode = 0660
    user = postfix
  }
}
service imap-login {
  inet_listener imaps {
    port = 993
    ssl = yes
  }
}
ssl_cert = </etc/dovecot/dovecot.pem
ssl_cipher_list =
EDH+CAMELLIA:EDH+aRSA:EECDH+aRSA+AESGCM:EECDH+aRSA+SHA384:
EECDH+aRSA+SHA256:EECDH:+CAMELLIA256:+AES256:+CAMELLIA128:+AES128:+SSLv3:! aNULL:!eNULL:!LOW:!3DES:!MD5:!EXP:!PSK:!DSS:!RC4:!SEED:! ECDSA:CAMELLIA256-SHA:AES256-SHA:CAMELLIA128-SHA:AES128-SHA ssl_key = was automatically rejected:%n%r } protocol imap { imap_client_workarounds = delay-newmail mail_max_userip_connections = 20 } protocol pop3 { mail_max_userip_connections = 10 pop3_client_workarounds = outlook-no-nuls oe-ns-eoh } ╭╴ (master=)╶╮ ╰ [T] jeff@nantes-1:p27 $

Here I have a tail -f /var/log/mail.log and mail.err running in the background so we can see the results of the restart:
[T] jeff@nantes-1:conf.d $ ls -l
total 136
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  5301 Aug 25 15:26 10-auth.conf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  1893 Mar 16  2016 10-director.conf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  2805 Mar 16  2016 10-logging.conf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 16172 Aug 25 15:35 10-mail.conf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  3547 Aug 25 15:40 10-master.conf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  2307 Aug 25 16:27 10-ssl.conf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root   291 Apr 11  2017 10-tcpwrapper.conf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  1668 Mar 16  2016 15-lda.conf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  2808 Mar 16  2016 15-mailboxes.conf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  3295 Mar 16  2016 20-imap.conf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  2398 Apr 11  2017 20-managesieve.conf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  4109 Aug 25 15:28 20-pop3.conf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root   676 Mar 16  2016 90-acl.conf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root   292 Mar 16  2016 90-plugin.conf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  2502 Mar 16  2016 90-quota.conf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  6822 Apr 11  2017 90-sieve.conf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  1829 Apr 11  2017 90-sieve-extprograms.conf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  1856 Nov  3 16:11 91-stats
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  1430 Oct 31 16:33
99-mail-stack-delivery.conf -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 499 Mar 16 2016 auth-checkpassword.conf.ext -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 489 Mar 16 2016 auth-deny.conf.ext -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 343 Mar 16 2016 auth-dict.conf.ext -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 561 Mar 16 2016 auth-master.conf.ext -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 515 Mar 16 2016 auth-passwdfile.conf.ext -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 788 Mar 16 2016 auth-sql.conf.ext -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 611 Mar 16 2016 auth-static.conf.ext -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2185 Mar 16 2016 auth-system.conf.ext -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 330 Mar 16 2016 auth-vpopmail.conf.ext [T] jeff@nantes-1:conf.d $ sudo service dovecot restart Nov 3 16:14:26 nantes-1 dovecot: master: Warning: Killed with signal 15 (by pid=5845 uid=0 code=kill) Nov 3 16:14:26 nantes-1 dovecot: imap(jeff): Server shutting down. in=3514 out=2605 Nov 3 16:14:26 nantes-1 dovecot: master: Dovecot v2.2.22 (fe789d2) starting up for imap, sieve (core dumps disabled) [T] jeff@nantes-1:conf.d $

No errors there, either.

And, just to be clear that I'm not missing anything:
╭╴ (master=)╶╮
╰ [T] jeff@nantes-1:p27 $ netstat -a | grep 242
╭╴ (master=)╶╮
╰ 1,[T] jeff@nantes-1:p27 $ doveconf -n | grep stat
╭╴ (master=)╶╮
╰ 1,[T] jeff@nantes-1:p27 $
The file 91-stats contains the contents I pasted in my earlier mail. I'm a bit unclear what to check next.

Jeff

On 03/11/17 08:06, Steffen Kaiser wrote:

...
On Thu, 2 Nov 2017, Jeff Abrahamson wrote:

...
In particular, nothing listens on 24242. service stats { inet_listener { address = 127.0.0.1 port = 24242 } } my conf looks almost identitical. This should do the trick, IMHO.

check "doveconf -n" to see, if you have a typo somewhere or any errors show up. Second check out the error log (there might be (re)bind failures). Third, make sure you have restarted Dovecot.

-- Steffen Kaiser

Don't know if it matters but you have two 'service stats {}' sections, one for unix socket, one for tcp. Maybe move the inet_listener into the upper one?

Jeff Abrahamson

6:45 p.m.

On 03/11/17 17:43, Mark Moseley wrote:

...

On Fri, Nov 3, 2017 at 9:35 AM, Jeff Abrahamson mailto:jeff@p27.eu> wrote:

Sorry, Aki, I don't follow you.  Did I do it wrong in the file
91-stats
that I shared in my original mail (attached here)?

Jeff


On 03/11/17 16:50, Aki Tuomi wrote:
> You need to add the stats listener, by yourself.
>
> Aki
>
>> On November 3, 2017 at 5:19 PM Jeff Abrahamson <jeff@p27.eu
<mailto:jeff@p27.eu>> wrote:
>>
>>
>> Thanks for your suggestions, Steffen.
>>
>> Running doveconf -n shows no errors and also, sadly, no mention
of the
>> stats listener:
>>
>>     ╭╴ (master=)╶╮
>>     ╰ [T] jeff@nantes-1:p27 $ doveconf -n
>>     # 2.2.22 (fe789d2): /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf
>>     # Pigeonhole version 0.4.13 (7b14904)
>>     # OS: Linux 4.4.0-97-generic x86_64 Ubuntu 16.04.3 LTS
>>     auth_mechanisms = plain login
>>     auth_socket_path = /var/run/dovecot/auth-userdb
>>     mail_location = maildir:~/Maildir
>>     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
>>     namespace inbox {
>>       inbox = yes
>>       location =
>>       mailbox Drafts {
>>         special_use = \Drafts
>>       }
>>       mailbox Junk {
>>         special_use = \Junk
>>       }
>>       mailbox Sent {
>>         special_use = \Sent
>>       }
>>       mailbox "Sent Messages" {
>>         special_use = \Sent
>>       }
>>       mailbox Trash {
>>         special_use = \Trash
>>       }
>>       prefix =
>>     }
>>     passdb {
>>       driver = pam
>>     }
>>     plugin {
>>       sieve = ~/.dovecot.sieve
>>       sieve_dir = ~/sieve
>>     }
>>     protocols = imap sieve
>>     service auth {
>>       unix_listener /var/spool/postfix/private/auth {
>>         group = postfix
>>         mode = 0666
>>         user = postfix
>>       }
>>       unix_listener /var/spool/postfix/private/dovecot-auth {
>>         group = postfix
>>         mode = 0660
>>         user = postfix
>>       }
>>     }
>>     service imap-login {
>>       inet_listener imaps {
>>         port = 993
>>         ssl = yes
>>       }
>>     }
>>     ssl_cert = </etc/dovecot/dovecot.pem
>>     ssl_cipher_list =
>>   
 EDH+CAMELLIA:EDH+aRSA:EECDH+aRSA+AESGCM:EECDH+aRSA+SHA384:EECDH+aRSA+SHA256:EECDH:+CAMELLIA256:+AES256:+CAMELLIA128:+AES128:+SSLv3:!aNULL:!eNULL:!LOW:!3DES:!MD5:!EXP:!PSK:!DSS:!RC4:!SEED:!ECDSA:CAMELLIA256-SHA:AES256-SHA:CAMELLIA128-SHA:AES128-SHA
>>     ssl_key = </etc/dovecot/private/dovecot.pem
>>     ssl_protocols = !SSLv2 !SSLv3
>>     userdb {
>>       driver = passwd
>>     }
>>     protocol lda {
>>       deliver_log_format = msgid=%m: %$
>>       mail_plugins = sieve
>>       postmaster_address = postmaster
>>       quota_full_tempfail = yes
>>       rejection_reason = Your message to <%t> was automatically
>>     rejected:%n%r
>>     }
>>     protocol imap {
>>       imap_client_workarounds = delay-newmail
>>       mail_max_userip_connections = 20
>>     }
>>     protocol pop3 {
>>       mail_max_userip_connections = 10
>>       pop3_client_workarounds = outlook-no-nuls oe-ns-eoh
>>     }
>>     ╭╴ (master=)╶╮
>>     ╰ [T] jeff@nantes-1:p27 $
>>
>> Here I have a tail -f /var/log/mail.log and mail.err running in the
>> background so we can see the results of the restart:
>>
>>     [T] jeff@nantes-1:conf.d $ ls -l
>>     total 136
>>     -rw-r--r-- 1 root root  5301 Aug 25 15:26 10-auth.conf
>>     -rw-r--r-- 1 root root  1893 Mar 16  2016 10-director.conf
>>     -rw-r--r-- 1 root root  2805 Mar 16  2016 10-logging.conf
>>     -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 16172 Aug 25 15:35 10-mail.conf
>>     -rw-r--r-- 1 root root  3547 Aug 25 15:40 10-master.conf
>>     -rw-r--r-- 1 root root  2307 Aug 25 16:27 10-ssl.conf
>>     -rw-r--r-- 1 root root   291 Apr 11  2017 10-tcpwrapper.conf
>>     -rw-r--r-- 1 root root  1668 Mar 16  2016 15-lda.conf
>>     -rw-r--r-- 1 root root  2808 Mar 16  2016 15-mailboxes.conf
>>     -rw-r--r-- 1 root root  3295 Mar 16  2016 20-imap.conf
>>     -rw-r--r-- 1 root root  2398 Apr 11  2017 20-managesieve.conf
>>     -rw-r--r-- 1 root root  4109 Aug 25 15:28 20-pop3.conf
>>     -rw-r--r-- 1 root root   676 Mar 16  2016 90-acl.conf
>>     -rw-r--r-- 1 root root   292 Mar 16  2016 90-plugin.conf
>>     -rw-r--r-- 1 root root  2502 Mar 16  2016 90-quota.conf
>>     -rw-r--r-- 1 root root  6822 Apr 11  2017 90-sieve.conf
>>     -rw-r--r-- 1 root root  1829 Apr 11  2017
90-sieve-extprograms.conf
>>     -rw-r--r-- 1 root root  1856 Nov  3 16:11 91-stats
>>     -rw-r--r-- 1 root root  1430 Oct 31 16:33
99-mail-stack-delivery.conf
>>     -rw-r--r-- 1 root root   499 Mar 16  2016
auth-checkpassword.conf.ext
>>     -rw-r--r-- 1 root root   489 Mar 16  2016 auth-deny.conf.ext
>>     -rw-r--r-- 1 root root   343 Mar 16  2016 auth-dict.conf.ext
>>     -rw-r--r-- 1 root root   561 Mar 16  2016 auth-master.conf.ext
>>     -rw-r--r-- 1 root root   515 Mar 16  2016
auth-passwdfile.conf.ext
>>     -rw-r--r-- 1 root root   788 Mar 16  2016 auth-sql.conf.ext
>>     -rw-r--r-- 1 root root   611 Mar 16  2016 auth-static.conf.ext
>>     -rw-r--r-- 1 root root  2185 Mar 16  2016 auth-system.conf.ext
>>     -rw-r--r-- 1 root root   330 Mar 16  2016
auth-vpopmail.conf.ext
>>     [T] jeff@nantes-1:conf.d $ sudo service dovecot restart
>>     Nov  3 16:14:26 nantes-1 dovecot: master: Warning: Killed with
>>     signal 15 (by pid=5845 uid=0 code=kill)
>>     Nov  3 16:14:26 nantes-1 dovecot: imap(jeff): Server
shutting down.
>>     in=3514 out=2605
>>     Nov  3 16:14:26 nantes-1 dovecot: master: Dovecot v2.2.22
(fe789d2)
>>     starting up for imap, sieve (core dumps disabled)
>>     [T] jeff@nantes-1:conf.d $
>>
>> No errors there, either.
>>
>> And, just to be clear that I'm not missing anything:
>>
>>     ╭╴ (master=)╶╮
>>     ╰ [T] jeff@nantes-1:p27 $ netstat -a | grep 242
>>     ╭╴ (master=)╶╮
>>     ╰ 1,[T] jeff@nantes-1:p27 $ doveconf -n | grep stat
>>     ╭╴ (master=)╶╮
>>     ╰ 1,[T] jeff@nantes-1:p27 $
>>
>> The file 91-stats contains the contents I pasted in my earlier
mail. 
>> I'm a bit unclear what to check next.
>>
>> Jeff
>>
>>
>> On 03/11/17 08:06, Steffen Kaiser wrote:
>>> On Thu, 2 Nov 2017, Jeff Abrahamson wrote:
>>>
>>>> In particular, nothing listens on 24242.
>>>>      service stats {
>>>>        inet_listener {
>>>>          address = 127.0.0.1
>>>>          port = 24242
>>>>        }
>>>>      }
>>> my conf looks almost identitical. This should do the trick, IMHO.
>>>
>>> check "doveconf -n" to see, if you have a typo somewhere or
any errors
>>> show up. Second check out the error log (there might be (re)bind
>>> failures). Third, make sure you have restarted Dovecot.
>>>
>>> -- Steffen Kaiser

Don't know if it matters but you have two 'service stats {}' sections, one for unix socket, one for tcp. Maybe move the inet_listener into the upper one?

Thanks. I tried simply removing the socket listener, as I don't need it. Still no error, still no port 24242 listener.

Jeff Abrahamson +33 6 24 40 01 57 +44 7920 594 255

http://p27.eu/jeff/

Thomas Leuxner

4 Nov 4 Nov

7:47 p.m.

Jeff Abrahamson jeff@p27.eu 2017.11.03 17:45:

...

>>     -rw-r--r-- 1 root root  1856 Nov  3 16:11 91-stats

Please take note of the include scheme: !include conf.d/*.conf

Regards Thomas

Steffen

10:06 p.m.

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On 03/11/17 17:43, Mark Moseley wrote:

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On Fri, Nov 3, 2017 at 9:35 AM, Jeff Abrahamson mailto:jeff@p27.eu> wrote:

Sorry, Aki, I don't follow you. Did I do it wrong in the file 91-stats that I shared in my original mail (attached here)?

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-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1856 Nov 3 16:11 91-stats -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1430 Oct 31 16:33 99-mail-stack-delivery.conf

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The file 91-stats contains the contents I pasted in my earlier mail. I'm a bit unclear what to check next.

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Thanks. I tried simply removing the socket listener, as I don't need it. Still no error, still no port 24242 listener.

IMHO: the default dovecot.conf includes *.conf files only. If you haven't changed it, hence, try to rename the file into

91-stats.conf ^^^^^

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5 Nov 5 Nov

10:29 p.m.

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.)

╭╴ (master=)╶╮ ╰ [T] jeff@nantes-1:p27 $ ll /var/run/dovecot/stats* srw------- 1 root root 0 Nov 5 21:02 /var/run/dovecot/stats prw------- 1 dovecot root 0 Nov 5 21:02 /var/run/dovecot/stats-mail prw------- 1 root root 0 Nov 5 21:02 /var/run/dovecot/stats-user ╭╴ (master=)╶╮ ╰ [T] jeff@nantes-1:p27 $

But actually this might be tricky, since there are many such users, depending on what we mean.

root 7553 0.0 0.2 18244 3000 ? Ss Nov03 0:00 /usr/sbin/dovecot dovecot 7559 0.0 0.0 9520 960 ? S Nov03 0:00 \_ dovecot/anvil root 26686 0.0 0.2 9652 2376 ? S 21:02 0:00 \_ dovecot/log root 26690 0.0 0.3 25300 4008 ? S 21:02 0:00 \_ dovecot/config dovenull 26806 0.0 0.5 18820 5488 ? S 21:02 0:00 \_ dovecot/imap-login root 26808 0.0 0.0 9516 948 ? S 21:02 0:00 \_ dovecot/ssl-params jeff 26810 0.0 0.3 25852 3860 ? S 21:02 0:00 \_ dovecot/imap

With a bit of trial-and-error, I see that the error goes away if I change the owner to jeff. It sounds like I need to create an imap-users group and make the socket accessible to everyone in that group (mode 660). But that's not really what the docs say. Am I confused or is this something I should suggest we change in the docs?

https://wiki2.dovecot.org/Statistics

Jeff

On 04/11/17 21:06, Steffen wrote:

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Jeff Abrahamson wrote: > > On 03/11/17 17:43, Mark Moseley wrote: > >> > >> > >> On Fri, Nov 3, 2017 at 9:35 AM, Jeff Abrahamson >> mailto:jeff@p27.eu> wrote: > >> > >> Sorry, Aki, I don't follow you. Did I do it wrong in the file > >> 91-stats that I shared in my original mail (attached here)? > >> > > >>>> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1856 Nov 3 16:11 91-stats -rw-r--r-- > >>>> 1 root root 1430 Oct 31 16:33 > >> 99-mail-stack-delivery.conf > > >>>> The file 91-stats contains the contents I pasted in my > >>>> earlier > >> mail. > >>>> I'm a bit unclear what to check next. > > > Thanks. I tried simply removing the socket listener, as I don't > > need it. Still no error, still no port 24242 listener. > > IMHO: the default dovecot.conf includes *.conf files only. If you > haven't changed it, hence, try to rename the file into > 91-stats.conf > ^^^^^ >

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On 05.11.2017 22:29, Jeff Abrahamson wrote:

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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.

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