I am testing a special setup on one machine where I want to put some local users that get mail locally to /home user directories via postfix transport map local: for historical and practical reasons. Other users are setup as virtual users. The local users are *also* setup as virtual users for dovecot so that I can retrieve the mail via dovecot. I changed the SQL for dovecot user_query, so that it gets the local uid and gid (and doesn't use vmail) and also gets the home directory in /home for only those users. After a bit of experimenting this works fine and I can retrieve mail via dovecot. However, there are two problems with quota and one of them has "doveadm get quota" spew out a lot of garbage that I think should actually go to a log and not to the program output. When I run a doveadm quota get -A or -u user I get four errors of this kind (for user/domain storage and message limit) for each special user:

doveadm(user): Error: Failed to get quota resource STORAGE: quota-dict: dict_lookup(priv/quota/storage) failed: net_connect_unix (/var/run/dovecot/dict) failed: Permission denied (euid=500(user) egid=200(vmail) missing +r perm: /var/run/dovecot/dict, dir owned by 0:0 mode=0755) (reply took 0.000 secs (0.000 in dict wait, 0.000 in other ioloops, 0.000 in locks))

Then the normal program output follows, with error lines for these special users, of course: user STORAGE error error error

The reason is that /var/run/dovecot/dict is owned by vmail:vmail (not root:root as the 0:0 suggests). I don't see a way to change this without blocking the "real" virtual users that use vmail:vmail.

Shouldn't this massive error output rather go to a log? (dovecot/error.log)

Or: is there a way to avoid this? /var/run/dovecot/dict is a socket. I didn't want to fiddle with it. Can I change the permissions so that it can also be accessed by other system users? Probably only to make it world-readable? If so, what are the implications of doing that?

Thanks,

Kai