[Dovecot] Dovecot as LDA with Postfix

[Timo Sirainen]

On Wed, 2006-08-09 at 13:49 -0400, Gerard Seibert wrote:
> 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?

Yes.

> 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.

It'd most likely write a nice understandable error message to the log
file. "Temporary failure" tells nothing about what the actual problem
is.
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