Hi! In your case it's probably easiest to change
service stats { unix_listener stats-writer { mode = 0666 } } Aki > On 31 December 2018 at 16:05 cpblpublic+dove...@gmail.com wrote: > > > > I use a localhost dovecot imap server in order to access maildir folders from > Alpine (see 2009 instructions for my set up here > https://cpbl.wordpress.com/2009/11/07/alpine-offlineimap-and-gmail-under-ubuntu/ > ) > > My configuration has worked nicely since 2009, but failed after a recent > upgrade of dovecot (during basic upgrade from Ubuntu 18.04 to 18.10). > > The version of Alpine did not change. Uninstalling dovecot-core and > dovecot-imapd, and reinstalling the older versions, fully fixes the problem. > > I would like to know how to get my configuration working with the new version > of dovecot. > > Here's what the problem looks like: > > I have a file auto-dovecot.conf with only the following two lines. > > verbose_proctitle = yes > mail_location = > maildir:/home/meuser/imap/gmailStanford:LAYOUT=fs:INBOX=/home/meuser/imap/gmailStanford/INBOX > > Other /etc/ files are unchanged from installation defaults. > > Alpine calls imapd when it starts, with the following command: > > /usr/lib/dovecot/imap -c /home/meuser/dotfiles/auto-dovecot.conf > > > When I run that command, I get: > > imap(meuser,)Error: net_connect_unix(/var/run/dovecot/stats-writer) failed: > Permission denied > * PREAUTH [CAPABILITY IMAP4rev1 SASL-IR LOGIN-REFERRALS ID ENABLE IDLE > SORT SORT=DISPLAY THREAD=REFERENCES THREAD=REFS THREAD=ORDEREDSUBJECT > MULTIAPPEND URL-PARTIAL CATENATE UNSELECT CHILDREN NAMESPACE UIDPLUS > LIST-EXTENDED I18NLEVEL=1 CONDSTORE QRESYNC ESEARCH ESORT SEARCHRES WITHIN > CONTEXT=SEARCH LIST-STATUS BINARY MOVE SNIPPET=FUZZY LITERAL+ NOTIFY] > Logged in as meuser > > > > > so I am guessing that the first line is the issue, since when the older > version I get instead: > > * PREAUTH [CAPABILITY IMAP4rev1 LITERAL+ SASL-IR LOGIN-REFERRALS ID ENABLE > IDLE SORT SORT=DISPLAY THREAD=REFERENCES THREAD=REFS THREAD=ORDEREDSUBJECT > MULTIAPPEND URL-PARTIAL CATENATE UNSELECT CHILDREN NAMESPACE UIDPLUS > LIST-EXTENDED I18NLEVEL=1 CONDSTORE QRESYNC ESEARCH ESORT SEARCHRES WITHIN > CONTEXT=SEARCH LIST-STATUS BINARY MOVE] Logged in as meuser > > > Can anyone help me? I cannot find documentation for using a localhost server > for Alpine, except my own from 2009. > > Many thanks! > > Chris