> On 09/04/2021 10:13 Victor Sudakov <v...@sibptus.ru> wrote:
>
>
> Dear Colleagues,
>
> I'm trying to debug SMTP commands clients send to the submission
> service.
>
> I've tried
>
> protocol submission {
> rawlog_dir = /var/tmp/dovecot
> }
>
> but /var/tmp/dovecot remains empty. What am I missing? I'd use Wireshark
> but the communication between SMTP clients and Dovecot is encrypted
> after STARTTLS, so Wireshark is pretty useless here.
>
> Can you please point me to the right direction to log all SMTP commands?
> All is happening on Debian/buster, Dovecot 2.3.4.1.
>
> --
> Victor Sudakov VAS4-RIPE
> http://vas.tomsk.ru/
> 2:5005/49@fidonet
Sorry for sending empty mail first...
I would recommend using
rawlog_dir = /var/tmp/dovecot/%u
and then ensuring that the directory, which expands to the username, *exists*
and is *writable* to your mail user. Dovecot will not attempt to create this
directory.
Aki
