Greetings -

On 13 Mar 2007, at 16:08, Timo Sirainen wrote:

On Tue, 2007-03-13 at 16:01 +0000, Mike Brudenell wrote:

...

Q1. The UW IMAP Server supports "pre-authenticated connections" -- does Dovecot?

dovecot --exec-mail imap

I'm having some success with the above but...

When started like this Dovecot doesn't seem to want to write log
entries to the Dovecot logfile as specified in the configuration
file, namely log_path = /logfiles/mail/live/dovecot

I have checked that I have write access to the logfile as me: I do.
But nevertheless with /usr/local/sbin/dovecot --exec-mail imap log output comes out on stdout or stderr instead. For example:

% /usr/local/sbin/dovecot --exec-mail imap

• PREAUTH [CAPABILITY IMAP4rev1 SASL-IR SORT THREAD=REFERENCES
  MULTIAPPEND UNSELECT LITERAL+ IDLE CHILDREN NAMESPACE LOGIN-REFERRALS
  QUOTA] Logged in as pmb1 a01 logout

• BYE Logging out a01 OK Logout completed. imap(pmb1): Info: Disconnected: Logged out %

  Note the final line beginning "imap(pmb1)".

If I instead run the "imap" binary by hand /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/imap the logging still comes out on stdout/stderr.

But after peering at the source code I tried setting the LOGFILE
environment variable to point at the logfile: setenv LOGFILE /logfiles/mail/live/dovecot

Now if I run the "imap" binary by hand logging does indeed come out
in the logfile.

BUT using the "dovecot --execmail imap" command instead still has
logging coming out on stdout/stderr, not in the logfile ... it's as
if this latter isn't seeing/using the LOGFILE environment variable.

Can someone explain what I'm doing wrong, please, and how to use the dovecot --exec-mail imap trick to do pre-authenticated connections whilst getting logging out
in the right place? (Ideally as specified in the configuration file,
and not having to fiddle on manually setting the LOGFILE environment
variable.)

With thanks, Mike B-)

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