[Dovecot] Mail root to root and permissions problem

[Steffen Kaiser]

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On Tue, 15 Dec 2009, Antonello Onida wrote:

> I got a non perfect installation: when an internal mail has been sent i got 
> this error:

You don't get this error, when receiving an external message??

> <error>
> ex: from root@*     to root@*.
> Command output: Can't open log file /var/log/dovecot.log: Permission denied
> </error>
> Operations like "dovecot: 2009-12-15 11:17:24 Warning: Killed with signal 15" 
> are writen.
> It's a permission problem: dovecot.log is owned by "root" and grupped by 
> "adm" (chmodded 640).

At first shot (if you would always get the error), I would say, you use 
system users and those users must not write to the log file.

Add write-permission for all (chmod a+w) or reconfigure Dovecot to let 
deliver use syslog:

protocol lda {
   ...
    # Log to syslog
   log_path =
   info_log_path =
   syslog_facility = mail
}

Regards,

- -- 
Steffen Kaiser
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