postfix-dovecot via lmtp

Reindl Harald h.reindl at thelounge.net
Mon Aug 4 10:14:44 UTC 2014



Am 04.08.2014 um 12:01 schrieb Timothy Murphy:
> I've been trying for some days to get postfix + dovecot + pigeonhole/sieve
> working on a CentOS-7 home server.
> I think I may have detected the problem; I read in /var/log/maillog
>   Aug  4 11:29:13 alfred postfix/lmtp[14871]: 9C04C220A99:
>     to=<tim at localhost.gayleard.eu>, orig_to=<tim at localhost>,
>     relay=alfred.gayleard.eu[private/dovecot-lmtp], delay=971,
>     delays=971/0.03/0.02/0.1, dsn=4.3.0, status=deferred 
>     (host alfred.gayleard.eu[private/dovecot-lmtp] said: 451 4.3.0
>     <tim at localhost.gayleard.eu> Internal error occurred. 
>     Refer to server log for more information. (in reply to RCPT TO command))
> (I've split one long line here.)

"Refer to server log for more information" comes from dovecot lmtpd
so look there and post the output of "doveconf -n"

> 1) I see that the permissions on /var/spool/postfix/private/ are
>   [tim at alfred ~]$ ls -ls /var/spool/postfix/
>   4 drwx------.  2 postfix root     4096 Aug  4 11:30 private
> The socket dovecot-lmtp setup by postfix is in this directory;
> does dovecot need permission to access this?

they talk to each other since dovecot replies over ltmpd

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