On 2018-02-21 15:04, Graeme Fowler via Exim-users wrote:
> On 21 Feb 2018, at 13:18, himbeere--- via Exim-users
> <exim-users@???> wrote:
>> It seems dovecot-lda runs as the user the mail gets delivered to. I
>> can dovecot-lda configure like that:
>>
>> protocol lda {
>> # Space separated list of plugins to load (default is global
>> mail_plugins).
>> mail_plugins = sieve
>> log_path = /var/log/dovecot-lda-errors.log
>> info_log_path = /var/log/dovecot-lda.log
>> }
>>
>> but then those logfiles need to be world writeable.
>
> That needs to be asked on a dovecot list - it’s the dovecot side
> that’s doing the logging at this point, not Exim.
Thanks. I will do so.
cheers
t.
> For reference, https://wiki.dovecot.org/LDA states "Normally Dovecot
> logs everything through its log process, which is running as root.
> dovecot-lda doesn't, which means that you might need some special
> configuration for it to log anything at all."
>
> Graeme
