setting service_count results in Permission denied

[Steffen Kaiser]

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On Mon, 6 Apr 2015, Micah Anderson wrote:

> service imap { service_count = 100 }

where do you put this config line?

> but when I added that to the service imap block, and restarted dovecot,
> I see this in the logs: Error:
> net_connect_unix(/run/dovecot/imap-postlogin) failed: Permission denied


> I dont understand how this impacts permissions. Its clearly this
> setting, because when I remove it, things work again. I found nothing
> else in the logs indicating a configuration problem.
>
> This is what the config block looked like:
>
> service imap {
>  # Most of the memory goes to mmap()ing files. You may need to increase this
>  # limit if you have huge mailboxes.
>  #vsz_limit = 256M
>  # Max. number of IMAP processes (connections)
>  process_limit = 4096
>  service_count = 100
>  executable = imap imap-postlogin
> }


please run:

doveconf -a >without_service_count
add service_count
doveconf -a >with_service_count

Then compare the section "service imap" and "imap-postlogin" for changes.

> service imap-postlogin {
>  # the script process runs as the user specified here (v2.0.14+):
>  #user = $default_internal_user
>
>  executable = script-login /usr/local/sbin/postlogin_imap
>
>  # this UNIX socket listener must use the same name as given to imap executable
>  unix_listener imap-postlogin {
>  }
> }
>
> This is with dovecot 2.2.13, thanks for any help you can provide!
>
> micah
>

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Steffen Kaiser
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