[Dovecot] Getting started with sieve and conversion from procmail

[Timo Sirainen]

On Tue, 2011-11-15 at 20:50 -0500, Alex wrote:
> > deliver should have logged something, or alternatively the problem was exactly that it couldn't log anything. http://wiki.dovecot.org/LDA#logging
> 
> Yes, looks like permissions. I have the following now in syslog:
> 
> Nov 15 19:51:07 mail02 dovecot: lda(alexuser): Fatal:
> setresgid(12(mail),12(mail),12(mail)) failed with euid=500(alexuser):
> Operation not permitted

> Where is it trying to write that it can't? 

It's trying to change the process's UID/GID to mail/mail for some
reason. Have you set "mail_uid=mail" or something?

> Does alexuser need to be a member of group mail?

No.