I found the logfile problem:
it was an error in 10-logging.conf
auth_verbose_passwords = yes
this gives an error and all the logging settings are not working. I found it with:
doveadm log find
Now dovecot logs into the given logfiles. but really not much, still the same information only.
I read there:
May 16 15:24:16 auth: Fatal: Unknown database driver 'mysql' May 16 15:24:16 master: Error: service(auth): command startup failed, throttling
But I have the mysql driver, when checking:
root@myserver:# dovecot --build-options | tail -n4 Mail storages: shared mdbox sdbox maildir mbox cydir raw --> SQL driver plugins: --> mysql postgresql sqlite Passdb: checkpassword ldap pam passwd passwd-file shadow sql Userdb: checkpassword ldap(plugin) nss passwd prefetch passwd-file sql
Anyway I didn't compile it myself, I installed it with aptitude on ubuntu 12.04. Must be with mysql.
-----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- Von: dovecot-bounces@dovecot.org [mailto:dovecot-bounces@dovecot.org] Im Auftrag von Ken Stevenson Gesendet: Mittwoch, 16. Mai 2012 15:32 An: dovecot@dovecot.org Betreff: Re: [Dovecot] How to make Dovecot verbous
With regard to your original problem, it sounds like you don't have mysql support compiled into Dovecot (--with-mysql option). Not sure what the logging problem is. I've debugged authentication using just auth_debug_passwords=yes, but I didn't enable separate log files so the messages were in maillog.
On 2012-05-16 09:20, Frank Walter wrote:
Hello
I am struggling with Dovecot 2 (coming from Dovecot 1.0.10) with mysql Authentification for Postfix. I get errors when using it:
dovecot: auth: Fatal: Unknown database driver 'mysql' dovecot: master: Error: service(auth): command startup failed, throttling
But a first thing would be to log the real errors, if there are any, so I set in
/etc/dovecot/conf.d/10-logging.conf
auth_verbose, auth_verbose_passwords, auth_debug, auth_debug_passwords, mail_debug, verbose_ssl
all to yes and I set:
debug_log_path = /var/log/dovecot-debug.log
but there is no logfile after restarting dovecot.
How can I enable a (verbous) own Logfile in Dovecot?
frank