[Dovecot] Dovecot as LDA with Postfix

[Gerard Seibert]

Timo Sirainen wrote:

> On Wed, 2006-08-09 at 12:36 -0400, Gerard Seibert wrote:
> > Aug  9 11:56:20 scorpio postfix/local[4324]: 818AEBF6F: to=<gerard-gmail at localhost.seibercom.net>, orig_to=<gerard-gmail at localhost>, relay=local, delay=495, delays=494/0.06/0/0.81, dsn=4.3.0, status=deferred (temporary failure)
> 
> Most likely deliver wrote the actual error message to Dovecot's log
> file. However because deliver tries to write to logs directly instead of
> through master process like Dovecot normally does, it may not have
> permissions to write. So, try making sure that it does or set different
> log path to deliver with:
> 
> protocol lda{
>   ..
>   log_path = /var/log/deliver.log
> }
> 

I am not following you here. There is no entry in my dovecot.conf file
under 'protocol lda; for 'log_path'. Are you inferring that I should
create one?

Second, what would that have to do with the failure of any mail to be
properly delivered. Postfix simply stuck them back into the queue until
I switched back to Procmail to get them delivered.


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