Re: [Dovecot] Log rotation?

On Sun, 2009-12-27 at 23:02 -0800, Beto Moreno wrote:

postrotate /bin/kill -USR1 cat /var/run/dovecot/master.pid 2>/dev/null 2> /dev/null || true endscript }

Well, my question is simple, Do we need to restart the service each time logrotation runs?

If you've configured log_path in Dovecot, you need to run the postrotate kill command above. It doesn't restart Dovecot, it just makes Dovecot reopen the log file.