Bug 1744535

Summary:	stats-writer permission denied
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Tom Horsley <horsley1953>
Component:	dovecot	Assignee:	Michal Hlavinka <mhlavink>
Status:	CLOSED EOL	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version:	30	CC:	anon.amish, bennie.joubert, janfrode, mailinglists, mhlavink, mollyredlipps, ricardof
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Description Tom Horsley 2019-08-22 11:22:14 UTC

Description of problem:

Using fetchmail to suck mail off servers and feed it to my local dovecot server. The fetchmail rc file uses the "mda" directive to send them mail through /usr/libexec/dovecot/deliver.

Since some update of dovecot (not sure when, since I didn't notice right away), I now get the logs from running fetchmail filled up with:

lda(tweety,)Error: net_connect_unix(/var/run/dovecot/stats-writer) failed: Permission denied


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
dovecot-pigeonhole-2.3.6-3.fc30.x86_64
dovecot-2.3.6-3.fc30.x86_64


How reproducible:
100%

Steps to Reproduce:
1.see above
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Actual results:
permission denied errors

Expected results:
clean log files

Additional info:

Presumably if I make a /etc/dovecot/conf.d/90-stats.conf file and set access permissions on /var/run/dovecot/stats-writer to 0666, this will go away, but I have no idea if that is a reasonable solution in general. Seems like there ought to be a secure mechanism for deliver to write stats if it insists on trying.

Comment 1 Ben Cotton 2020-04-30 20:37:47 UTC

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Comment 2 Ben Cotton 2020-05-26 18:02:33 UTC

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