[Dovecot] Fail2Ban and the Dovecot log

[Bill Landry]

Timo Sirainen wrote:
> On Mon, 2009-05-11 at 14:48 -0700, Bill Landry wrote:
>>> If you log via syslog, the timestamp will be at the beginning of line.
>>
>> Well, then that would explain it.  Maybe it would be a good idea then to
>> remove the "dovecot: " from the beginning of each log line when not
>> using syslog for logging, since I'm pretty sure that anyone checking the
>> "dovecot.log" would know that it was the "dovecot" log they were looking
>> at (no need to remind then at the beginning of each and every line).  ;-)
> 
> Yeah. I don't know what I was thinking when I made it work like that.
> v1.2 has more sensible logging now, but I don't want to break anyone's
> setup by doing the change to v1.1. These patches probably apply to v1.1
> too though:
> 
> http://hg.dovecot.org/dovecot-1.2/rev/0669bc561763
> http://hg.dovecot.org/dovecot-1.2/rev/194b80691980

Thanks Timo, your responsiveness to requests (no matter how mundane at
times) is always very much appreciated!

Bill