[Dovecot] Delivery failure about update to 1.2.4 (Debian)
Jerry
gesbbb at yahoo.com
Tue Oct 6 00:53:19 EEST 2009
On Mon, 5 Oct 2009 16:43:00 -0400
William Witteman <yam at nerd.cx> wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 05, 2009 at 03:28:24PM -0400, Jerry wrote:
> >On Mon, 05 Oct 2009 15:00:58 -0400
> >Timo Sirainen <tss at iki.fi> 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. Do I make
> my file look like what is above, or set it to 0600?
Sorry about the confusion. I had to change the settings to 0666 in
order to make it work. It might work with just 0660; however, I did not
have time to test it. The default 0600 definitely does not work on a
FreeBSD-7.2 system (at least not mine).
--
Jerry
gesbbb at yahoo.com
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A: There are skid marks in front of the dog.
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