/var/run/dovecot/stats-writer) failed: Permission denied

[@lbutlr]

I am getting this error in logs 

net_connect_unix(/var/run/dovecot/stats-writer) failed: Permission den))

and I looked around the google results and it seems to be related to using service stats, which I am not using.

# doveconf -n | grep stat
# doveconf -n | head -3
# 2.3.5.1 (7ec6d0ade): /usr/local/etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf
# Pigeonhole version 0.5.5 (2483b085)
# OS: FreeBSD 11.2-RELEASE-p4 i386  

Postfix is 3.4-20190106 (the newest version in ports)


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