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[Adam Rosi-Kessel]

Stephen R Laniel wrote:
 > The permissions on /etc/ssl/... are
 > -rw-r-----  1 root dovecot 887 2004-07-25 08:27 dovecot.pem
 > with that group-readability having been added by me just
 > now; it didn't change the error that Fetchmail gave back.

That's because dovecot is running as slaniel, not as dovecot. It's not 
a setuid/setgid program.

I'm not sure why dovecot needs to access dovecot's private SSL key, 
though.  That's not the case on bostoncoop.net.  In fact, I'm sure if 
you point your fetchmailrc at bostoncoop.net with the same options it 
will work fine.

What is your symlink for /usr/sbin/imapd?

> On Sun, Jan 16, 2005 at 05:35:25PM -0500, Adam Rosi-Kessel wrote:
>> 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).
> 
> The directory /etc/dovecot is new in one of the recent
> minor-version upgrades to Dovecot, apparently. I just
> upgraded and got the new directory structure.
> 
> Making that file world-readable didn't change anything. Now
> I get
> 
> (00:27) slaniel at TheloniousMonk:~$ fetchmail
> Fatal: Can't use SSL key file /etc/ssl/private/dovecot.pem: Permission denied
> fetchmail: socket error while fetching from laniels.org
> fetchmail: Query status=2 (SOCKET)
> 
> The permissions on /etc/ssl/... are
> 
> -rw-r-----  1 root dovecot 887 2004-07-25 08:27 dovecot.pem
> 
> with that group-readability having been added by me just
> now; it didn't change the error that Fetchmail gave back.
-- 
Adam Rosi-Kessel
http://adam.rosi-kessel.org
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