[Dovecot] Restoring individual messages from a backup into a Maildir setup?

[Timo Sirainen]

On Thu, 2009-01-08 at 17:02 -0500, Thomas Harold wrote:
> >> My first inclination was to look at the dovecot-deliver.log file (per 
> >> log_path or info_log_path).  It wasn't until I went looking for SELinux 
> >> errors that I discovered that it was a labeling problem.
> > 
> > That's what I meant, did Dovecot not log anything?
> > 
> 
> None that I could find.  At 14:48, there's nothing in the 
> dovecot-deliver.log file (set in the "protocol lda" section of our 
> dovecot.conf).

Well, that logs only deliver's errors.

> But our logging section at the top of the dovecot.conf file is:
> 
> ##
> ## Logging
> ##
> 
> # Log file to use for error messages, instead of sending them to syslog.
> # /dev/stderr can be used to log into stderr.
> #log_path = /var/log/dovecot.log
> 
> # Log file to use for informational and debug messages.
> # Default is the same as log_path.
> #info_log_path =
> 
> So I'm not sure that is configured correctly to actually log errors.

They get logged to syslog, which probably goes to mail.log or something
like that.

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