Re: Dovecot correct ownership for logs

[Richard <rrosner5@gmail.com>]

Interesting. That's not even configured in our main.cfg. We have these concerning dovecot:

smtpd_sasl_type = dovecot

mailbox_command = /usr/lib/dovecot/deliver -d $USER

But that's still not that helpful for the main issue. Why on earth is postfix throwing issues about the log files, even when they are world-readable and -writable? It's not that dovecot doesn't log to them, but it's also not the case that it's an error message that can just be ignored, as it brings mail delivery to a halt.

Am Mi., 15. Mai 2024 um 05:00 Uhr schrieb jeremy ardley <jeremy.ardley@gmail.com>:

 

This can be configured in postfix main.conf as

virtual_transport  =  lmtp:unix:private/dovecot-lmtp or mailbox_transport  =  lmtp:unix:private/dovecot-lmtp

 From the postfix howto guide

mailbox_transport_maps (default: empty)

     Optional lookup tables with per-recipient message delivery transports to use for local(8) mailbox delivery, whether or not the recipients are found in the UNIX passwd database.

     The precedence of local(8) delivery features from high to low is: aliases, .forward files, mailbox_transport_maps, mailbox_transport, mailbox_command_maps,
     mailbox_command, home_mailbox, mail_spool_directory, fallback_transport_maps, fallback_transport and luser_relay.

https://www.postfix.org/local.8.html

https://doc.dovecot.org/configuration_manual/howto/postfix_dovecot_lmtp/