[Dovecot] LMTP logging configuration

Timo Sirainen tss at iki.fi
Tue Sep 7 17:21:35 EEST 2010


On Tue, 2010-09-07 at 09:23 +0200, Rainer Frey wrote:

> protocol lmtp {
>         syslog_facility = mail
> }
> 
> but this has no effect, LMTP logs to local0. Is this supposed to work, or is 
> this not implemented at all? If not, is using a logfile in main config, but 
> syslog in lmtp supported? 

The problem is that all logging goes through log process, which
currently only supports a single logging destination. But .. I think you
can make lmtp processes bypass log process by setting:

service lmtp {
  executable = lmtp -L
}




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