On 2018-03-19 (13:19 MDT), Odhiambo Washington <odhiambo@gmail.com> wrote:

What does your doveconf -n have?

imap_id_log = * log_path = /var/log/dovecot

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So is yours.

Why not say what SHOULD be done? Since we were discussing logging, including only the lines about logging seem to be a reasonable response to the original open-ended question. “Please include the complete output of ‘dovecot -n’” would get your point across instead of just letting you be a snarky ass. On Mon, Mar 19, 2018 at 1:14 PM Odhiambo Washington <odhiambo@gmail.com> wrote:

On 19 March 2018 at 22:45, @lbutlr <kremels@kreme.com> wrote:

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On 2018-03-19 (13:19 MDT), Odhiambo Washington <odhiambo@gmail.com> wrote:

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What does your doveconf -n have?

imap_id_log = * log_path = /var/log/dovecot

This is a very useless response!

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On 2018-03-19 (13:19 MDT), Odhiambo Washington <odhiambo@gmail.com> wrote:

Plus, if dovecot is able to write to a file owned by root:wheel, then there is a BIG problem right there!!!

Logging is generally done by syslogd, not directly by the process. So no, dovecot is not writing to a file owned by root anymore than postfix is writing to mail.log which is also owned by root.

In my specific case, it is rsyslogd.

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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 login_log_format_elements = user=<%u> %r %m %c mail_location = maildir:~/Maildir mail_max_userip_connections = 90 managesieve_notify_capability = mailto managesieve_sieve_capability = fileinto reject envelope encoded-character vacation subaddress comparator-i;ascii-numeric relational regex imap4flags copy include variables body enotify environment mailbox date index ihave duplicate mime foreverypart extracttext imapsieve vnd.dovecot.imapsieve namespace inbox { inbox = yes location = mailbox Archive { auto = subscribe special_use = \Archive } mailbox Drafts { special_use = \Drafts } mailbox Junk { auto = subscribe special_use = \Junk } mailbox Sent { special_use = \Sent } mailbox Trash { special_use = \Trash } prefix = } passdb { driver = pam username_filter = !*@* } passdb { args = /usr/local/etc/dovecot/dovecot-sql.conf.ext driver = sql } plugin { imapsieve_mailbox1_before = file:/usr/lib/dovecot/sieve/report-spam.sieve imapsieve_mailbox1_causes = COPY imapsieve_mailbox1_name = Junk imapsieve_mailbox2_before = file:/usr/lib/dovecot/sieve/report-ham.sieve imapsieve_mailbox2_causes = COPY imapsieve_mailbox2_from = Junk imapsieve_mailbox2_name = * sieve_global_extensions = +vnd.dovecot.pipe +vnd.dovecot.environment sieve_pipe_bin_dir = /usr/lib/dovecot/sieve sieve_plugins = sieve_imapsieve sieve_extprograms } protocols = imap pop3 service auth { unix_listener /var/spool/postfix/private/auth { mode = 0666 } } service imap-login { inet_listener imaps { port = 993 ssl = yes } } service pop3-login { inet_listener pop3 { port = 0 } inet_listener pop3s { port = 995 ssl = yes } } ssl_cert = </usr/local/etc/dehydrated/certs/covisp.net/fullchain.pem ssl_key = # hidden, use -P to show it userdb { driver = passwd } userdb { args = /usr/local/etc/dovecot/dovecot-sql.conf.ext default_fields = uid=vpopmail gid=vchkpw mail_location=/usr/local/virtual/%u mail=maildir:/usr/local/virtual/%u driver = sql } protocol imap { mail_plugins = " virtual imap_sieve" }

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On Mar 20, 2018, at 01:23, Aki Tuomi <aki.tuomi@dovecot.fi> wrote:

This will disable syslog usage.

Thank you, I’ll disable that and use rsyslogd to split out the dovecot related logging then.

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