Scott Haneda: > Apr 23 16:28:02 postfix/pipe[49289]: fatal: get_service_attr: > unknown username: vmail
This error is logged in non-verbose mode. In master.cf you have "pipe ... user=vmail". Either there is no such user in the password database, or you have incorrect access permissions so that an unprivileged postfix process cannot access the password database. This error happens entirely before Postfix executes any Dovecot software, and therefore logfile permissions are a red herring. Wietse