[Dovecot] dovecot-lda error

[Timo Sirainen]

On 25.4.2012, at 17.52, Hadi Salem wrote:

> i tried using multiple uids as mention in wiki2.dovecot.org/LDA bye setting up setuid-root for dovecot-lda but im getting on-there error from sendmail :- 
> 
> Apr 25 17:30:41 host1 sendmail[31024]: q3PEUen2031022: to=<jamal at example.com>, delay=00:00:00, xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=dovecot, pri=120359, relay=dovecot, dsn=4.0.0, stat=Deferred: dovecot mailer (/usr/local/libexec/dovecot/dovecot-lda) exited with EX_TEMPFAIL

What do the Dovecot logs say about this?

> protocol lda {
>  info_log_path = /var/log/dovecot-lda.log
>  log_path = /var/log/dovecot-lda-errors.log
> }

If there is nothing in dovecot-lda-errors.log, make sure dovecot-lda has permissions to write there (e.g. temporarily make it world-writable).