[Dovecot] Newbie: LDA Isn't Logging

[Michael Papet]

I did some testing on a Debian testing VM.  I built 2.0.17 from sources and copied the config straight over from the malfunctioning machine.

LDA logging worked.  So, it could be something about my system.  But,  running /usr/lib/dovecot/deliver still doesn't return a value on the command line as documented on the wiki.

I've attached strace files from both the malfunctioning Debian packages machine and the built from sources VM.  Unfortunately, I'm a new strace user, so I don't know what it all means.

Michael

--- On Tue, 1/3/12, Timo Sirainen <tss_no_spam at iki.fi> wrote:

> From: Timo Sirainen <tss_no_spam at iki.fi>
> Subject: Re: [Dovecot] Newbie: LDA Isn't Logging
> To: "Michael" <mpapet_no_spam at yahoo.com>
> Cc: dovecot at dovecot.org
> Date: Tuesday, January 3, 2012, 4:15 AM
> On Mon, 2012-01-02 at 22:48 -0800,
> Michael wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > I'm a newbie having some trouble getting deliver to
> log anything.  Related to this, there are no return
> values unless the -d is missing.  I'm using LDAP to
> store virtual domain and user account information.
> > 
> > Test #1: /usr/lib/dovecot/deliver -e -f mpapet at yahoo.com
> -d zed at mailswansong.dom
> < bad.mail
> > Expected result: supposed to fail, there's no zed
> account via ldap lookup and supposed to get a return code
> per the wiki at http://wiki2.dovecot.org/LDA. 
> Supposed to log too.
> > Actual result: nothing gets delivered, no return code,
> nothing is logged.
> 
> As in return code is 0? Something's definitely wrong there
> then.
> 
> First check that deliver at least reads the config file.
> Add something
> broken in there, such as: "foo=bar" at the beginning of
> dovecot.conf.
> Does deliver fail now?
> 
> Also running deliver via strace could show something
> useful.
> 
> 
>
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