On Sat, 1 Dec 2018 16:35:19 +0200 (EET) Aki Tuomi wrote: > > On 01 December 2018 at 12:09 mick crane <m...@mickiwiki.com> wrote:
> > getmail is not sending the delete request. > > Mails are sent and received but not deleted gmail so I keep getting > > them. > > > > mick@rapunzel:~/.getmail$ getmail --rcfile getmailrc1 > > Delivery error (command deliver 1363 wrote to stderr: > > lda(mick,)Error: net_connect_unix(/var/run/dovecot//stats-writer) > > failed: Permission denied) > > > > I think is apt install dovecot on debian buster probably > > I updated yesterday but was working OK since so I dunno what > > happened. is log full or something ? > > you can fix this with > > service stats { > unix_listener stats-writer { > mode = 077 > } > } But why is this needed? Something has changed. It used to work without the socket being owned by the user running 'deliver'. I just ran into this on FreeBSD after a package update, so it's not just Debian.