[Dovecot] Delivery failure about update to 1.2.4 (Debian)

[Timo Sirainen]

On Mon, 2009-10-05 at 16:43 -0400, William Witteman wrote:
> >> On Mon, 2009-10-05 at 14:59 -0400, Timo Sirainen wrote:
> >> > On Mon, 2009-10-05 at 14:53 -0400, William Witteman wrote:
> >> > > log_path: /var/log/dovecot.log
> >> 
> >> > lda:
> >> >   log_path: /home/vmail/dovecot-deliver.log
> >> 
> >> > > Oct  5 14:47:07 theta postfix/pipe[30972]: 451873B5B8:
> >> > > to=<obfuscated>, relay=dovecot, delay=168521,
> >> > > delays=168521/0.01/0/0.02, dsn=4.3.0, status=deferred (temporary
> >> > > failure)
> >> > 
> >> > What does deliver log to dovecot.log? If nothing, does it have
> >> > enough permissions to write to it?
> >> 
> >> Oh, /home/vmail/dovecot-deliver.log of course. :)
> >
> >I just had a problem similar to this. I turned on all the debug
> >(logging) in dovecot and discovered that I had to the default 0600
> >permissions on auth-client and auth-master, as shown below. After
> >restarting dovecot, all went well.
> >
> >srw-rw-rw-   1 root  wheel       0B Oct  4 15:43 auth-client=
> >srw-rw-rw-   1 root  wheel       0B Oct  4 15:43 auth-master=
> 
> I am confused.  The permissions above look like 0666 to me.  

They are.

> Do I make my file look like what is above, or set it to 0600?

If auth* permissions are wrong, an error is logged about them. So the
most important thing you should do first is check if there's anything
logged in dovecot-deliver.log, and if not change its permission to 0666
and see if then something gets logged there.
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