On 19.03.2018 23:19, @lbutlr wrote:
On 2018-03-19 (14:20 MDT), Odhiambo Washington odhiambo@gmail.com wrote:
I have been running FreeBSD since 1997, so I know quite a lot about it! I know about /etc/syslog.conf, but you do realize now that you are conflicting yourself? No, I am not, I pointed out that dovecot does not writ ether logs, but that is a task generally managed by syslogd. then I said that in my case it was rsyslogd.
You want to provide doveconf -n output and get help, or figure it out yourself. the only lines in doveconf -n that relate to logging are the two lines I posted. The rest of dovecot's logging properly shows up in /var/log/dovecot, only the bcc delivery seems to error out.
I run dovecot and Exim (MTA) on FreeBSD. I don't use syslogd to do the logging as the same can be controlled within the respective daemons. So, figure out what you have done to make Postfix want to write to /var/log/dovecot.log. I never said postfix was writing to dovecot's log. What gave you that idea?
# doveconf -n # 2.2.34 (874deae): /usr/local/etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf # Pigeonhole version 0.4.22 (22940fb7) # OS: FreeBSD 11.1-RELEASE-p4 i386
# Hostname: mail.covisp.net auth_failure_delay = 5 secs auth_mechanisms = PLAIN LOGIN default_client_limit = 4096 default_process_limit = 1024 default_vsz_limit = 768 M disable_plaintext_auth = no first_valid_uid = 89 imap_id_log = * lda_mailbox_autocreate = yes lda_mailbox_autosubscribe = yes log_path = /var/log/dovecot This will disable syslog usage.
Also if you use dovecot-lda you probably should run it as root, and let it setuid to target user. It's not 100% required, but does make some things easier.
Aki