[Dovecot] trouble debugging

[Aaron Solochek]

Timo Sirainen wrote:
> On 6.1.2007, at 2.52, Aaron Solochek wrote:
> 
>> I want to switch away from bincimap, and I am having some trouble 
>> getting dovecot up and running. Something isn't working (I suspect 
>> it's a permissions problem) but the logs aren't really telling me 
>> anything interesting.
>>
>> I can authenticate and get a list of folders, but when I try to select 
>> a folder, I get the "Internal error" message that tells me to check 
>> the server logs.  The server log shows:
>>
>> Jan  5 19:43:42 sausage dovecot: imap-login: Login: user=<aarons>, 
>> method=plain, rip=XXX, lip=XXX, TLS
>> Jan  5 19:43:43 sausage dovecot: IMAP(aarons): Effective uid=1000, 
>> gid=1000
>> Jan  5 19:43:43 sausage dovecot: IMAP(aarons): Namespace: 
>> type=private, prefix=, sep=/, inbox=yes, hidden=no, subscriptions=no
>> Jan  5 19:43:43 sausage dovecot: IMAP(aarons): maildir: 
>> data=/XXX/aarons/Maildir
>> Jan  5 19:43:43 sausage dovecot: IMAP(aarons): maildir: 
>> root=/XXX/aarons/Maildir, index=/XXX/aarons/Maildir, control=, inbox=
>>
>> How can I get better debugging info?  I've tried all the debugging 
>> options in dovecot.conf.
> 
> You're showing only the debugging information, not the actual error 
> message. If you don't see the error, it's probably because it's logged 
> into different log file. Many syslogs are configured to write "info" 
> messages to different log file than "error" messages. So try finding the 
> actual error message from another file. If you can't find it, set 
> log_path manually to some file and look there.
> 

I tried that (I just tried again) and I get the exact same info in my manually 
specified /tmp/dovecot.log.  I ensured that file was world-writeable just to be 
safe.

-Aaron