Hi John

Thanks for responding. I've progressed somewhat - details follow.

On 10/08/06, John Peacock <jpeacock@rowman.com > wrote:

You aren't using the correct log_path; it should be:

log_path = /dev/stderr

I did have this option set, sorry - I pasted the previous config. The log process appears to be working since I changed a few other settings.

Google is your friend:

http://www.thedjbway.org/imap/dovecot.html

This is the exact URL which I'd started from before I even started building Dovecot.

$ cat /service/dovecot-imapd/run
#!/bin/sh
exec 2>&1
echo "Starting dovecot IMAP service"
exec envuidgid dovecot \
     /usr/sbin/dovecot \
     -F \
     -c /etc/dovecot.conf

$ cat /service/dovecot-imapd/log/run
#!/bin/sh
exec setuidgid log multilog t /var/log/dovecot-imapd

I'm now getting the following error in the logs - any idea? The error isn't terribly informative.

Fatal: sigaction(SIGRTMIN) failed: Invalid argument

---- My revised /etc/dovecot.conf is ----

base_dir = /var/run/dovecot/

protocols = imap
protocol imap {
listen = 127.0.0.1:143143
}

shutdown_clients = yes

log_path = /dev/stderr
log_timestamp =

ssl_disable = yes

login_dir = /var/run/dovecot/login
login_chroot = yes
login_user = dovecot
login_greeting = Dovecot ready.

maildir_copy_with_hardlinks = yes

auth default {
mechanisms = plain
passdb checkpassword {
    args = /var/qmail/bin/qmail-vauth
}
userdb prefetch {
}
user = auth
}

---- Some more detail regarding permissions (if this is pertinent) ----

$ id dovecot
uid=1016(dovecot) gid=211(dovecot) groups=211(dovecot)

$ id auth
uid=1017(auth) gid=212(auth) groups=212(auth)

$ ls -la /var/qmail/users/ | grep vpasswd
-rw-r-----   1 root   auth   2814 Aug 3 11:03 vpasswd
-rw-r-----   1 root   auth   5621 Aug 3 11:04 vpasswd.cdb

$ ls -la /var/log | grep dove
drwxr-x---   2 log   log   4096 Aug 10 14:51 dovecot-imapd

$ ls -la /var/qmail/bin | grep vauth
-rws--s--x   1 root   auth   10320 May 11 2005 qmail-vauth