Re: [Dovecot] Maillog rotates, but dovecot still writes logs into old logfile?

Mart Pirita wrote:

syslog_facility = mail

should do the trick and log all via syslog to /var/log/maillog?

That's all you need on a modern Linux system, as the syslog facility 'mail' usually is sent to /var/log/maillog; this is the default for all SMTP/IMAP/POP3/etc. on any Red Hat -esque system (RHEL, Fedora, CentOS). Check your /etc/syslog.conf file.

Personally I prefer my logs discrete, and use the settings right out of the Wiki page to /var/log/dovecot.log and the included logrotate.d/ script. Works 100%.

-te

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