[Dovecot] dovecot/deliver ... Can't open log file /var/log/dovecot/error.log: Permission denied

[Romer Ventura]

I am using static uids:
mail_uid = vmail
mail_gid = vmail
user = vmail
group = vmail

else it will do what you describe.

Thanks
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Romer Ventura

> On Mon, May 10, 2010 at 13:59, Romer Ventura <rventura at h-st.com>  
> wrote:
> I had to chmod 777 for it to work..
>
> I did chmod 777 to see what it would do, and especially, what  
> userid the log files were owned by.  Bad news from that ... they  
> are owned by the first user I sent email to.  That seems to me to  
> be a Postfix issue where Postfix still thinks I mailing to local  
> system users, and running the deliver program under such a userid.   
> When I start adding users which don't have local system user  
> equivalents, that's going to be a problem
>
> Also, I'm finding that in mail_location = the variable %d is  
> empty.  It should be the domain.  Again, this seems like Postfix is  
> treating local delivery as all-users-are-equivalent for any local  
> domain (and that is definitely not the case).  So I need to look at  
> some Postfix config now to see how to make it pass the full email  
> address (user at domain ... so %n@%d represents the email address),  
> and to run dovecot/deliver as user vmail.
>
> At least I'm not using sendmail :-)
>
> This old legacy "system user" thing is sure a PITA.  It should  
> either be ON or OFF.
>  log files automatically named by the date (and maybe time) ...  
> kind of
> like in a shell script I would do: `date +/path/to/tree/%Y/%m/% 
> d.log` or
> such.