I never touched nuthin'

[RW]

On Sat, 1 Dec 2018 16:35:19 +0200 (EET)
Aki Tuomi wrote:

> > On 01 December 2018 at 12:09 mick crane <mc at mickiwiki.com> wrote:

> >  getmail is not sending the delete request.
> > Mails are sent and received but not deleted gmail so I keep getting 
> > them.
> > 
> > mick at rapunzel:~/.getmail$ getmail --rcfile getmailrc1
> > Delivery error (command deliver 1363 wrote to stderr:
> > lda(mick,)Error: net_connect_unix(/var/run/dovecot//stats-writer)
> > failed: Permission denied)
> > 
> > I think is apt install dovecot on debian buster probably
> > I updated yesterday but was working OK since so I dunno what
> > happened. is log full or something ?
> 
> you can fix this with 
> 
> service stats {
>  unix_listener stats-writer {
>    mode = 077
>  }
> }


But why is this needed? Something has changed. It used to work
without the socket being owned by the user running 'deliver'.

I just ran into this on FreeBSD after a package update, so it's not
just Debian.