Re: Can't get Dovecot working with Exim

On 2025/12/07 20:33, Christopher Curzio via dovecot wrote:

 Did you look at exim's systemd unit rules? And did you try LMTP?

I think

 it's exim's unit not mounting /var/log/dovecot read-write.

I'll be honest, I don't know what any of those things are but I'll look into them.

The systemd service file can be read here 0.

Could you test if the following fixes the issue?

Edit the service file: sudo systemctl edit exim4-daemon-light.service

And add:

[Service] ReadWritePaths=/var/log/dovecot

This allows the sandboxed Exim process to write to /var/log/dovecot while keeping all other protections.

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