[Dovecot] index file vs. memory

[Gunter Ohrner]

Am Mittwoch, 22. Februar 2006 12:54, schrieb Marcus Rueckert:
> > Tomorrow I'll switch of SSL and log the IMAP chatter between kMail
> > and dovecot. That's slowly getting ridiculous...
> you dont need to switch of ssl. use the rawlog feature of dovecot. see
> the config howto set that up.

Mh... I uncommented the line

mail_executable = /usr/lib/dovecot/rawlog /usr/lib/dovecot/imap

in my "procotol imap {}"-block. I cannot find any rawlog however, there is 
no process called "rawlog" running and the imap process itself has no 
filehandle to anything remotely related to a "rawlog" as well...

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# lsof | egrep '^imap[[:space:]]' | cut -c30-
cwd       DIR       33,6    1024    15878 /home/gunter
rtd       DIR       33,6    1024        2 /
txt       REG       33,6  428364     4136 /usr/lib/dovecot/imap
mem       REG       33,6   27304     9751 /lib/libnss_compat-2.3.2.so
mem       REG       33,6   32480     9755 /lib/libnss_nis-2.3.2.so
mem       REG       33,6   34520     9753 /lib/libnss_files-2.3.2.so
mem       REG       33,8  114828   
257211 /var/lager/var/maildir/gunter/.Mailinglisten.Software.Netz.Dovecot/dovecot.index
mem       REG       33,8  424960   
253886 /var/lager/var/maildir/gunter/.Mailinglisten.Software.Netz.Dovecot/dovecot.index.cache
mem       REG       33,8  106992   
123879 /var/lager/var/maildir/gunter/.Mailinglisten.Software.Netz.Dovecot/dovecot.index.log
mem       REG       33,6   91240    10654 /lib/ld-2.3.2.so
mem       REG       33,6 1247360    10655 /lib/libc-2.3.2.so
mem       REG       33,6   11384    10660 /lib/libdl-2.3.2.so
mem       REG       33,6   75040    10663 /lib/libnsl-2.3.2.so
  0u     unix 0xc3860b90          5909769 socket
  1u     unix 0xc3860b90          5909769 socket
  2w     FIFO        0,5          5909779 pipe
  3r      CHR        1,9             6154 /dev/urandom
  4r     FIFO        0,5          5909781 pipe
  5w     FIFO        0,5          5909781 pipe
  6r     FIFO        0,5          5909782 pipe
  7w     FIFO        0,5          5909782 pipe
 11u      REG       33,8  114828   
257211 /var/lager/var/maildir/gunter/.Mailinglisten.Software.Netz.Dovecot/dovecot.index
 12u      REG       33,8  106992   
123879 /var/lager/var/maildir/gunter/.Mailinglisten.Software.Netz.Dovecot/dovecot.index.log
 13u      REG       33,8  424960   
253886 /var/lager/var/maildir/gunter/.Mailinglisten.Software.Netz.Dovecot/dovecot.index.cache
#
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Is there anything else I have to do to enable rawlog? (eg. a build 
time ./configure switch? The rawlog binary is present, however...)

The config file I changed definitely is the one which si read by dovecot, 
the imap txt is the right one, and I deliberately added a syntax error to 
the config just to be sure, and it caused an error message as expected.

From the comments in the config file the rawlog should appear in the 
user's home directory, which it definitely does not:

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# dir /home/gunter/ -a
total 24
drwxr-xr-x  2 gunter gunter  1024 Oct  3 12:24 .
drwxrwsr-x  5 root   staff   1024 Jul 24  2005 ..
-rw-------  1 gunter gunter   792 Feb 22 12:44 .bash_history
-rw-r--r--  1 gunter gunter   414 Jul 21  2005 .bash_profile
-rw-r--r--  1 gunter gunter  2044 Jul 21  2005 .bashrc
-rw-------  1 gunter gunter   112 Feb 22 12:44 .nano_history
-rw-------  1 gunter gunter 16167 Feb 22 12:44 .procmailrc
#
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Mh...

Greetings,

  Gunter

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