[Dovecot] LMTP logging configuration

Rainer Frey rainer.frey at inxmail.de
Wed Sep 8 15:00:56 EEST 2010


On Tuesday 07 September 2010 16:21:35 Timo Sirainen wrote:
> 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
> }

This has no effect (logging still with global syslog_facility). Thanks anyway 
for your assistance. This is a very minor issue for me.

Rainer 


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