> On 11 October 2018 at 15:02 Laura Smith <n5d9xq3ti233xiyif...@protonmail.ch> > wrote: > > > > That's a permission error. Somewhere in your directory hierarchy things > > are off. See Postfix' set-permissions command. > > > > But surely if Dovecot is staring as root then directory permissions are > relevant, especially if I'm then asking the config to chmod the file anway ? > > To me, it seems dovecot is not behaving correctly, because if it is not using > root to access the directory then it is not going to be able to chmod the > socket later is it ?
You should probably check few things: 1. check dmesg or /var/log/audit/audit.log for any possible security framework problems 2. check namei -vl /var/spool/postfix-authrelay/private/dovecot-auth for anything strange 3. there is *some* reason the socket is not bound into, dovecot creates these sockets as root. Aki
