On Wed, 2010-08-18 at 10:50 -0500, Nishant Limbachia wrote: > > doveconf -f service=lda|grep log_path > > debug_log_path = /var/log/dovecot.log
This is the problem. You've specified a debug_log_path explicitly
globally and didn't override it for lda. So lda was trying to open the
debug log and failed to do it. Either comment out the global (it
defaults to info_log_path) or override it in protocol lda {} as well.
