[Dovecot] Error - Dovecot Permission denied

[mouss]

kbajwa wrote:
> Mouss:
> 
> Here is the information you asked for:
> 
> [root at www ~]# ls -1 / | grep /etc 

no, it's a '-l' (letter l => L), not '-1' (number 1). I hate these fonts!

> [root at www ~]# ls -l /etc/dovecot.conf 
> -rw-r----- 1 dovecot mail 46723 Jul 26 20:09 /etc/dovecot.conf 

so the delivery agent can't read the file since it is executed as the 
user who gets mail. thus "permission denied".