nologin + reason -> logging reason

Timo Sirainen tss at iki.fi
Mon Nov 21 22:49:56 UTC 2016


On 21 Nov 2016, at 16.39, Arkadiusz Miśkiewicz <arekm at maven.pl> wrote:
> 
> 
> Hi.
> 
> I'm using nologin with own reason [1]. That works fine. For example pop3 
> client gets nice message like "-ERR [AUTH] Account is locked. Please contact 
> support."
> 
> 
> Unfortunately maillog lacks information details about why user was not allowed 
> to log in.
> 
> pop3-login: Disconnected (auth failed, 1 attempts in 2 secs): user=<testuser>, 
> method=LOGIN, rip=1.1.1.1, lip=2.2.2.2, session=<yIsRftBBmsrB7y2h>
> 
> Is it possible to log "reason" there, too? (whether it is default/internal 
> dovecot reason or my custom one).

Does it work if you add:

login_log_format_elements = $login_log_format_elements reason=%{passdb:reason}



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