[Dovecot] dovecot-2.1.6: why are loglines longer and longer

[Timo Sirainen]

On 13.5.2012, at 13.31, Reindl Harald wrote:

> do we really need "session=<ugAua+i/ewBUcit1>" additional
> to proxy log-lines? until this change it was possible on
> a 24" screen with "tail -f /var/log/maillog" to watch
> without linebreaks, now each proxy line breaks
> 
> PLEASE reconsider such changes!
> 
> May 13 12:27:38 mail dovecot: imap-login: proxy(*******@thelounge.net): started proxying to 127.0.0.1:143:
> user=<********@thelounge.net>, method=PLAIN, rip=********, lip=******, TLS, session=<ugAua+i/ewBUcit1>

For login process lines you can configure this from login_log_format_elements setting.

Anyway the session IDs are especially useful with proxying, since you can match proxy connections to backend connections easily by grepping for the session ID from both logs.