[Dovecot] cram-md5 problem re-post

[Timo Sirainen]

On Mon, 2009-02-02 at 11:16 -0800, Richard Stockton wrote:
> At 10:10 AM 2/2/2009, you wrote:
> >On Mon, 2009-02-02 at 09:51 -0800, Richard Stockton wrote:
> > > dovecot: Jan 29 16:35:03 Info: auth(default): master out:
> > > USER  1490    jennshinjo      home=j/e/jennshinjo/Maildir/
> > > uid=5000        gid=5000        home=j/e/jennshinjo/Maildir/
> > > uid=5000        gid=5000
> > > dovecot: Jan 29 16:35:03 Info: pop3-login: Internal login failure
> > > (auth failed, 1 attempts): user=<jennshinjo>, method=CRAM-MD5,
> > > rip=xx.xx.xx.xx, lip=10.255.0.11
> >
> >You're missing the actual error message from the middle, since it's
> >written to a different log file:
> 
> Hmmm, the only errors I see there look like this:
> 
> dovecot: Jan 29 16:35:03 Error: uid specified multiple times for jennshinjo

Right, that's the one.

> and very occasionally I'll see an NFS error or a "Broken header", but
> neither seems to relate to the cram-MD5 problems.

These shouldn't happen either, could you show some of them?

> > > log_path: /var/log/pop.log
> > > info_log_path: /var/log/dovecot-info.log
> >
> >Why would you call Dovecot's error log pop.log?
> 
> Why not?  Dovecot doesn't use it, and it's already set to logrotate,
> so I used it.  I wanted it to be separate from the syslog.
> What would you suggest it be called?

I mean you call the info log so logically dovecot-info.log, why not
error log dovecot-error.log? :) I'd think that you could easily forget
to look at pop.log when errors happen.
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