I'll try to find out what's going on with syslog.. thanks for your help.

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giannis.
----- Original Message -----
From: Timo Sirainen
To: Dovecot Mailing List
Sent: Monday, January 22, 2007 2:47 PM
Subject: Re: [Dovecot] Logging

On Mon, 2007-01-22 at 13:46 +0200, Ioannis Zachariadis wrote:
>
> when I point the logs into a file, the file is being used, and all the
> logs are being written fine. However, when I use the syslog_facility
> (not multiple, and not the point to file method) I get messages in
> syslog that are labeled as mail.info or mail.error. All these work
> fine, but there are messages from deliver that are labeled user.info
> and user.error. I just want to redirect all messages from dovecot and
> deliver to be labeled as mail.* and not user.*
 
Well, I can't really say anything more than that deliver doesn't log
anything to user.* by default. There must be something in your
configuration which causes that.
 
Actually if deliver logs something to mail.*, but not everything, then
I'm pretty sure that it's a syslog configuration issue.