[Dovecot] Syslog, Dovecot, and LogWatch

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On Monday 11 April 2005 11:42, Chris Wakelin wrote:
> It looks like it's hard-coded to use "LOG_MAIL" facility and various
> levels. You could probably modify it to use a LOG_LOCAL<X> facility -
> see the "i_set_failure_syslog()" call in
> src/[master, auth, imap, pop3]/main.c

Timo, have you considered a syslog_facility option? At busy sites I
like to keep Postfix separate from the IMAP daemon. I do this by 
changing Postfix's syslog_facility, but it would be nice to have the 
choice. Thanks.

> You can also opt not to use syslog at all, see dovecot-example.conf
> "log_path =" for how to specify log files.

I'm curious, what are the relative advantages of this?
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