Bug 673210 – net-mail/dovecot-2.3.4 /var/run/dovecot//stats-writer failed: Permission

• Status: CONFIRMED
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Kilburn Abrahams 2018-12-15 21:29:26 UTC]

Upgraded from 2.3.3 to 2.3.4 and this appears in the logs even when stats service is not used. 2.3.3 does not throw this error. Even although this appears in the logs, the mail still gets delivered.

The permissions on /var/run/dovecot//stats-writer seems to be the same on 2.3.3 and 2.3.4.

Dec 15 21:11:32 EBox postfix/pipe[17738]: CC1E3234002B: to=<[e-mail]>, relay=dovecot, delay=5.8, delays=5.4/0.01/0/0.39, dsn=2.0.0, status=sent (delivered via dovecot service (lda([e-mail],)Error: net_connect_unix(/var/run/dovecot//stats-writer) failed: Permissio))  

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. upgrade dovecot to 2.3.4
2. restart dovecot
3. receive mail and observe logs
Actual Results:  
No error in logs

[Comment 1 Tomáš Mózes 2019-02-20 08:44:43 UTC]

Same here on 2.3.4.1.

https://forum.iredmail.org/topic15113-error-netconnectunixvarrundovecotstatswriter-failed.html

service stats {
    unix_listener stats-reader {
        user = vmail
        group = vmail
        mode = 0660
    }

    unix_listener stats-writer {
        user = vmail
        group = vmail
        mode = 0660
    }
}

[Comment 2 WOLfgang Schricker 2021-04-10 19:49:28 UTC]

(In reply to Tomáš Mózes from comment #1)
> service stats {
>     unix_listener stats-reader {
>         user = vmail
>         group = vmail
>         mode = 0660
>     }
> 
>     unix_listener stats-writer {
>         user = vmail
>         group = vmail
>         mode = 0660
>     }
> }

Content inserted in (new file) /etc/dovecot/conf.d/10-stats.conf.
No more error in dovecot-2.3.13-r100.