Christopher,
Please try and put your replies below the responses you receive, and also leave some space between them. It's good for readability. Having said that, I am putting my reply below yours!
On Sun, Dec 7, 2025 at 2:03 PM Christopher Curzio via dovecot < dovecot@dovecot.org> wrote:
/var/log/dovecot is: mail:mail drwxr-x---
ls -alh /var/log/dovecot
total 2.8M drwxr-x--- 2 mail mail 4.0K Dec 6 14:15 . drwxr-xr-x 10 root root 4.0K Dec 7 05:56 .. -rw------- 1 mail mail 206 Dec 6 14:16 deliver-error.log -rw------- 1 mail mail 0 Dec 6 14:15 deliver.log -rw------- 1 mail mail 2.7M Dec 6 12:43 error.log -rw------- 1 mail mail 61K Dec 6 14:24 info.log
On this new server, what user is dovecot running as? I suspect it is not user 'mail'.
-- Best regards, Odhiambo WASHINGTON, Nairobi,KE +254 7 3200 0004/+254 7 2274 3223 In an Internet failure case, the #1 suspect is a constant: DNS. "Oh, the cruft.", egrep -v '^$|^.*#' ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ :-) [How to ask smart questions: http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html]
Christopher, Please try and put your replies below the responses you receive, and also leave some space between them. It's good for readability. Having said that, I am putting my reply below yours! On Sun, Dec 7, 2025 at 2:03PM Christopher Curzio via dovecot <[1]dovecot@dovecot.org> wrote:
/var/log/dovecot is: mail:mail drwxr-x---
# ls -alh /var/log/dovecot
total 2.8M
drwxr-x--- 2 mail mail 4.0K Dec 6 14:15 .
drwxr-xr-x 10 root root 4.0K Dec 7 05:56 ..
-rw------- 1 mail mail 206 Dec 6 14:16 deliver-error.log
-rw------- 1 mail mail 0 Dec 6 14:15 deliver.log
-rw------- 1 mail mail 2.7M Dec 6 12:43 error.log
-rw------- 1 mail mail 61K Dec 6 14:24 info.logOn this new server, what user is dovecot running as? I suspect it is not user 'mail'.
Best regards, Odhiambo WASHINGTON, Nairobi,KE +254 7 3200 0004/+254 7 2274 3223 In an Internet failure case, the #1 suspect is a constant: DNS. "Oh, the cruft.", egrep -v '^$|^.*#' -\_(Tu)_/- :-) [How to ask smart questions: [2]http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html]
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