service stats { unix_listener stats-reader { group = mail mode = 0666 user = } unix_listener stats-writer { group = mail mode = 0666 user = } } service anvil { unix_listener anvil { group = mail mode = 0666 } }

I put those in a local.conf

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On 8/10/18, 7:44 PM, "dovecot on behalf of Scott Ruckh" wrote:

I have seen this thread about being able to run doveadm as a non-root 
user, but I don't understand the solution even though I have seen other 
pages give this link as the solution.

http://bit.ly/2MC5oq9

What configuration is necessary so that I can set the permissions on 
/var/run/dovecot/stats-writer socket-file so when dovecot starts my 
virtual mail account has read/write access?

I saw another page about adding

service stats {
}

Although I set user, group, and permissions, it did not seem to have any 
effect on the permissions when I restarted dovecot.

Thank You.