dovecot - Feb 2009 - Changing level an error logs at

Hi,

I'd like to change the log levels of a few of the errors that Dovecot
throws.  Our servers throw errors at the console above the 'Error'
level,
and there are a few that I'd like to change to 'Warn' so that they
don't
do so.

Has anyone out there attempted this and can give me a few pointers?  Or is
there a doc somewhere about how to do this?

Thanks,

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On Mon, 2009-02-16 at 15:14 -0600, Thomas M Goerger
wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'd like to change the log levels of a few of the errors that Dovecot
> throws.  Our servers throw errors at the console above the 'Error'
level,
> and there are a few that I'd like to change to 'Warn' so that
they don't
> do so.
You can't do that without changing the source code (or maybe somehow via
syslog configuration, don't know about that). Anyway, errors just
shouldn't happen so I'd rather recommend getting the errors fixed. What
errors do you get?

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I'd been planning to change the source to redirect some of these errors
from Error to Warn, as that's what it looked like it would take.  I just
wasn't exactly sure what to be looking for.  If I have to change the
source, that's fine.  Unless the change would be too extensive to make it
worthwhile, at least.

The main culprits that are logging to the console are these:

5611    imap(%s): : UIDVALIDITY changed (%d -> %d) in mbox file %s
3610    imap(%s): : Corrupted index cache file %s: indexid changed
 626    imap(%s): : mbox sync: UID inserted in the middle of mailbox %s
(%d >
%d seq=%d, idx_msgs=%d)
 445    imap(%s): : mbox sync: Expunged message reappeared in mailbox %s
(UID
%d < %d seq=%d, idx_msgs=%d)

They're not Dovecot specific, most likely, but coming from our mail
system.  We'd like to know about them, but just not have them log to the
console.

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* Tom Goerger  -  Email/Unix System Administrator 			*
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* University of Minnesota		       Email:  tmg at umn.edu	*
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* 									*
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On Mon, 16 Feb 2009, Timo Sirainen wrote:
> On Mon, 2009-02-16 at 15:14 -0600, Thomas M Goerger wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I'd like to change the log levels of a few of the errors that
Dovecot
> > throws.  Our servers throw errors at the console above the
'Error' level,
> > and there are a few that I'd like to change to 'Warn' so
that they don't
> > do so.
>
> You can't do that without changing the source code (or maybe somehow
via
> syslog configuration, don't know about that). Anyway, errors just
> shouldn't happen so I'd rather recommend getting the errors fixed.
What
> errors do you get?
>
>