On 2018-03-19 (13:19 MDT), Odhiambo Washington <[email protected]> wrote: > > Plus, if dovecot is able to write to a file owned by root:wheel, then there > is a BIG problem right there!!!
Logging is generally done by syslogd, not directly by the process. So no, dovecot is not writing to a file owned by root anymore than postfix is writing to mail.log which is also owned by root. In my specific case, it is rsyslogd. -- "Woof bloody woof."
