autoreply not working

Suddenly I have a small problem with autoreply. I don't know if this is related to the Dovecot upgrade, or rather the changing of the home directory permissions to 750, but this is the reply I get when I should be getting a vacation reply:

Failed to open autoreply file /home/www-servername/autoreply-user.servername.txt : Permission denied

Perhaps this is unrelated to the changed home directory permissions, but perhaps I need to add a user (webmin, root?) to the server's group?

Status: 
Closed (fixed)