Dovecot Logging and Shell Script Hang

[Asai]

On Feb 27, 2019, at 11:00 AM, Aki Tuomi via dovecot <dovecot at dovecot.org> wrote:
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>> On 27 February 2019 18:49 Asai via dovecot <dovecot at dovecot.org> wrote:
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>> Greetings,
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>> We have a PHP based shell script that runs a doveadm backup routine.
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>> This script was running just fine, and then we turned on more logging for Dovecot (enabled the mail_log plugin). For some reason, once this was done, the shell script would run for a few minutes and then hang, as it added more log messages to the dsync STDOUT. Once the mail_log plugin was disabled, it ran without hanging.
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>> Is there any way to run doveadm and temporarily suspend the mail_log plugin? Or is there a better way to do this?
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>> Thanks for the insights.
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>> Asai
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> You might want to enable mail_log plugin for imap/pop3 protocols only.
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> protocol imap {
>   mail_plugins = $mail_plugins mail_log
> }
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> protocol pop3 {
>   mail_plugins = $mail_plugins mail_log
> }
> 
> Aki

Thank you, Aki,  I will try that.