On Sat, Dec 6, 2025 at 11:32PM Christopher Curzio via dovecot
<[1][email protected]> wrote:
Hello everyone.
I'm in the process of migrating my mail server to Debian running
exim4 and
dovecot. I was previously using exim4 and dovecot on Slackware and I
moved
the configs over, however I can't get dovecot working with exim on
the new
system.
These configs worked fine previously. I did have to make some minor
changes, but overall everything is mostly the same as it was.
dovecot config: [1][2]https://pastebin.com/Hrhj6xeb
exim config: [2][3]https://pastebin.com/bAQ9mTJb
No matter what I do, I'm getting this when mail is received:
dovecot_delivery transport output: Can't open log file
/var/log/dovecot/deliver-error.log: Permi
ssion denied
I've tried everything, even going as far as setting permissions on
/var/log/dovecot to a+rwx recursive (solely as a test) but I still
get the
same message.
Help getting this working would be greatly appreciated since I've
exhausted my own knowledge trying to wrench it into submission.
Thanks.
Who owns the /var/log/dovecot directory?
Can you try this: chown -R mail: /var/log/dovecot ?
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