I'm running 10.04, and this bug (or one very closely related to it) is
still a problem.

I have a user cron that runs a script to retrieve mail like so:
/usr/bin/fetchmail -a -s -m "/usr/bin/maildrop -d %T"

The maildrop binary is permissioned thusly:
-rwxr-sr-x 1 root mail 174168 2010-02-02 00:56 /usr/bin/maildrop

When fetchmail invokes maildrop this way, it does so as a non-superuser. 
Unfortunately, the authdaemon directory under /var/run/courier has these 
permissions:
drwxr-x--- 2 root root 100 2010-07-14 12:37 /var/run/courier/authdaemon/

This causes maildrop to complain that it can't connect to the authdaemon 
socket. This error message appears as an email from the local cron (or just on 
STDERR if I invoke the fetchmail script directly on the command line):
ERR: authdaemon: s_connect() failed: Permission denied

(Note: for some reason, my mail is still delivered, even though the
above error message is shown.)

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ERR: authdaemon: s_connect() failed: No such file or directory
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/102947
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