stats module

[Aki Tuomi]

On 05.11.2017 22:29, Jeff Abrahamson wrote:
> 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.

Aki