[Dovecot] dovecot/deliver ... Can't open log file /var/log/dovecot/error.log: Permission denied

[Jerry]

On Mon, 10 May 2010 17:30:48 -0400
Phil Howard <ttiphil at gmail.com> articulated:


> On Mon, May 10, 2010 at 17:11, Romer Ventura <rventura at h-st.com>
> wrote:
> 
> > try using -d ${recipient}, but change the format of the username in
> > dovecot.conf
> >
> 
> What does "change the format of the username" mean?
> 
> 
> 
> > What i did was to set the mail attribute for each user in AD, then
> > perform a query for it and have dovecot group users by domain, this
> > way i can have user1 at example.net and user1 at example.com
> 
> 
> Sorry, now I'm just not following this at all.  I don't know what mail
> attribute apply here, and I don't know what "in AD" means.
> 
> I have the following in in my dovecot-postfix.conf file:
> 
> mail_location =
> maildir:/home/mail/dnamesum=%12MLd/dname=%Ld/unamesum=%12MLn/uname=%Ln/mail
> 
> And this was working until I switched to the "virtual_transport =
> dovecot" method ... although %d was coming up empty (and %12MLd was
> the md5 of empty).  Ultimately my intention is to have:
> 
> mail_location = maildir:/home/mail/%2MLd/%Ld/%2MLn/%Ln/mail

Please post the output of "dovecot -n" and "postconf -n". Better,
provide output from the postfinger tool. This can be found at 
http://ftp.wl0.org/SOURCES/postfinger.

-- 
Jerry
Dovecot.user at seibercom.net

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