[Dovecot] Irrelevant information filling logs

[Steve Litt]

On Wed, 10 Oct 2012 10:39:27 -0300, 3.listas at adminlinux.com.br said:
> Hi,
> 
> I have a "Ubuntu10.04 + dovecot-2.0.13" configuration in my server.
> My mailbox server is shared by ~ 10k domains. It works fine with ~50k 
> accounts.
> 
> There is a lot of logs of "quota exceeded" like this:
> 
> Oct 10 13:00:56 mailboxserver5 dovecot: lmtp(29105, 
> user at mailboxserver5): Error: ifcIN1NxdVCxcQAAMBx7mQ: sieve: 
> msgid=unspecified: failed to store into mailbox 'INBOX': Quota
> exceeded (mailbox for user is full)
> 
> These messages are not important to me. But these messages fill the
> log files, damaging the display of messages that could be important.
> 
> Is there a way to send specific Dovecot errors on specific files or
> just discard them?

If all else fails, you could cat the log through a grep -v to filter
out the quota exceeded messages, and then pipe it to less for viewing.

SteveT

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