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[Adam Rosi-Kessel]

Did you try making dovecot.conf world readable? I don't there's 
anything particularly sensitive in there. bostoncoop's dovecot.conf is 
world readable (and in /etc/dovecot/, incidentally).

Stephen R Laniel wrote:
> (First of all, sorry for halfway-monopolizing -- or maybe
> monopsonizing -- this list.)
> 
> I'd like to use fetchmail over ssh. It's supposed to be
> basically this easy:
> 
> poll laniels.org with proto imap:
> 	plugin "ssh %h /usr/sbin/imapd" auth ssh
> 
> with the suitable modifications for the fact that my IMAP
> server is /usr/sbin/dovecot, but that doesn't work for me:
> I get 
> 
> 	Fatal: Can't open configuration file /etc/dovecot.conf:
> 	Permission denied
> 	fetchmail: socket error while fetching from laniels.org
> 	fetchmail: Query status=2 (SOCKET)
> 
> I'm sure there's an easy answer for how to make this work.
> I'd like to not store a password anywhere -- I hope that the
> presence of my laptop's public key in ~/.ssh/authorized_keys
> on the server will suffice. No?
> 
> 
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