[Dovecot] dovecot not logging after upgrade to 2.1.7 on debian

[Pascal Volk]

On 05/09/2013 02:02 PM Steinar Bang wrote:
> After upgrading my IMAP server to the new debian stable, and upgrading
> dovecot from 1.x to 2.1.7 in the process, dovecot no longer logs
> anything to /var/log/mail.*.  The last entries there are from before the
> upgrade, and no starts or error messages or failed login attempts, since
> then, have been logged.

Did you read /usr/share/doc/dovecot-core/{NEWS,README}.Debian.gz?

> Does anyone know what might cause this?
> 
> "doveconf -n" doesn't mention any of the log settings.  Maybe the log
> settings aren't picked up?  What could be done to make sure they are
> picked up?

,--[ doveconf(1) ]--
| OPTIONS
|     -n     Show only settings with non-default values.
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> Here's the content of the /etc/dovecot/conf.d/10-logging.conf file:
> …

Please don't copy and paste stuff from files in Dovecot's configuration
directory. Always provide the output generated by `doveconf -n`.

,--[ doveadm-log(1) ]--
| COMMANDS
|    log find
|        doveadm log find [directory]
| 
|        The  log  find command is used to show the location of the log files, to which dovecot(1) sends its log messages.  If dovecot(1) logs its messages through syslogd(8) and doveadm(1) could not find any
|        log files, you can specify the directory where your syslogd writes its log files.
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Regards,
Pascal
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