[Dovecot] Dovecot LDA (deliver) stopped working

[tomas at tuxteam.de]

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On Fri, Jan 25, 2008 at 08:42:09AM -0600, falz wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> One day a week or so ago, a server that's Postifx w/ Local users,
> dovecot w/ LDA decided to stop working [...]

> Postfix people suggested placing a wrapper script for mailbox_command,
> which I did, and have it log to a text file, so I do know that deliver
> is being called.

To get you right here: the wrapper is being called by Postfix, right?

>                  However, although I have LDA debug logging on, and it
> DID log prior to this, when postfix supposedly calls deliver, dovecot
> does NOT log anything.

...and LDA (called from the wrapper) doesn't run (or doesn't run to the
point of logging anything).

>                         It DOES however log if I call deliver from any
> account (root or not) from the command line (ls / | /path/to/deliver
> -d localaccountname). Any way I can debug this further? I would assume
> that deliver would log something even if it's called, but it appears
> that it does not.

That's rather bizarre. I would up the verbosity of the wrapper (f.ex.
putting a couple of line 'which /path/to/deliver' or 'ldd /path/to/deliver'
- -- or even 'strace /path/to/deliver'). Something in the environment must
be different to the command lines, right?

Regards
- -- tomás
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