Re: [exim] exim dovecot sieve integration

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Author: himbeere
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To: exim-users
Subject: Re: [exim] exim dovecot sieve integration
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