Is this a bug? exim4 error log entry

General Discussion
1

I seem to be having trouble sending smtp mail from a web form. phpmail works, but that’s far from ideal.

When I look into the logs, I get this error every time:

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

2

I sorted out the problem sending, but It’d still be good to know what this error message is all about.

3

This error message is benign and conveys nothing of use it seems unless you are using dovecot stats. However it’s annoying.

I found that adding to /etc/dovecot/sympl.d/10-main a file called 16-stats made it go away.

service stats {
  unix_listener stats-writer {
    user = sympl
  }
}

I think then you need to stop dovecot and restart it to get the socket owned by sympl with group of dovecot.

2 Likes