[Dovecot] Mail root to root and permissions problem

[Benny Pedersen]

On tir 15 dec 2009 11:41:41 CET, Steffen Kaiser wrote

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> On Tue, 15 Dec 2009, Antonello Onida wrote:
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>> I got a non perfect installation: when an internal mail has been  
>> sent i got this error:
>
> You don't get this error, when receiving an external message??
>
>> <error>
>> ex: from root@*     to root@*.
>> Command output: Can't open log file /var/log/dovecot.log: Permission denied
>> </error>
>> Operations like "dovecot: 2009-12-15 11:17:24 Warning: Killed with  
>> signal 15" are writen.
>> It's a permission problem: dovecot.log is owned by "root" and  
>> grupped by "adm" (chmodded 640).
>
> At first shot (if you would always get the error), I would say, you  
> use system users and those users must not write to the log file.
>
> Add write-permission for all (chmod a+w) or reconfigure Dovecot to  
> let deliver use syslog:
>
> protocol lda {
>   ...
>    # Log to syslog
>   log_path =
>   info_log_path =
>   syslog_facility = mail
> }

or more simple :)

mkdir -p /var/log/dovecot
chown dovecot /var/log/dovecot
# chgrp mail /var/log/dovecot
configure global dovecot to use logdir as /var/log/dovecot

rule to remember is permissons got the parent permissions, and this is  
why it fails above

please correct me if i am wrong

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