On 2018-03-19 (14:20 MDT), Odhiambo Washington <odhiambo at gmail.com> wrote:> > I have been running FreeBSD since 1997, so I know quite a lot about it! > I know about /etc/syslog.conf, but you do realize now that you are conflicting yourself?No, I am not, I pointed out that dovecot does not writ ether logs, but that is a task generally managed by syslogd. then I said that in my case it was rsyslogd.> You want to provide doveconf -n output and get help, or figure it out yourself.the only lines in doveconf -n that relate to logging are the two lines I posted. The rest of dovecot's logging properly shows up in /var/log/dovecot, only the bcc delivery seems to error out.> I run dovecot and Exim (MTA) on FreeBSD. I don't use syslogd to do the logging as the same can be controlled within the respective daemons. > So, figure out what you have done to make Postfix want to write to /var/log/dovecot.log.I never said postfix was writing to dovecot's log. What gave you that idea? # doveconf -n # 2.2.34 (874deae): /usr/local/etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf # Pigeonhole version 0.4.22 (22940fb7) # OS: FreeBSD 11.1-RELEASE-p4 i386 # Hostname: mail.covisp.net auth_failure_delay = 5 secs auth_mechanisms = PLAIN LOGIN default_client_limit = 4096 default_process_limit = 1024 default_vsz_limit = 768 M disable_plaintext_auth = no first_valid_uid = 89 imap_id_log = * lda_mailbox_autocreate = yes lda_mailbox_autosubscribe = yes log_path = /var/log/dovecot login_log_format_elements = user=<%u> %r %m %c mail_location = maildir:~/Maildir mail_max_userip_connections = 90 managesieve_notify_capability = mailto managesieve_sieve_capability = fileinto reject envelope encoded-character vacation subaddress comparator-i;ascii-numeric relational regex imap4flags copy include variables body enotify environment mailbox date index ihave duplicate mime foreverypart extracttext imapsieve vnd.dovecot.imapsieve namespace inbox { inbox = yes location = mailbox Archive { auto = subscribe special_use = \Archive } mailbox Drafts { special_use = \Drafts } mailbox Junk { auto = subscribe special_use = \Junk } mailbox Sent { special_use = \Sent } mailbox Trash { special_use = \Trash } prefix = } passdb { driver = pam username_filter = !*@* } passdb { args = /usr/local/etc/dovecot/dovecot-sql.conf.ext driver = sql } plugin { imapsieve_mailbox1_before = file:/usr/lib/dovecot/sieve/report-spam.sieve imapsieve_mailbox1_causes = COPY imapsieve_mailbox1_name = Junk imapsieve_mailbox2_before = file:/usr/lib/dovecot/sieve/report-ham.sieve imapsieve_mailbox2_causes = COPY imapsieve_mailbox2_from = Junk imapsieve_mailbox2_name = * sieve_global_extensions = +vnd.dovecot.pipe +vnd.dovecot.environment sieve_pipe_bin_dir = /usr/lib/dovecot/sieve sieve_plugins = sieve_imapsieve sieve_extprograms } protocols = imap pop3 service auth { unix_listener /var/spool/postfix/private/auth { mode = 0666 } } service imap-login { inet_listener imaps { port = 993 ssl = yes } } service pop3-login { inet_listener pop3 { port = 0 } inet_listener pop3s { port = 995 ssl = yes } } ssl_cert = </usr/local/etc/dehydrated/certs/covisp.net/fullchain.pem ssl_key = # hidden, use -P to show it userdb { driver = passwd } userdb { args = /usr/local/etc/dovecot/dovecot-sql.conf.ext default_fields = uid=vpopmail gid=vchkpw mail_location=/usr/local/virtual/%u mail=maildir:/usr/local/virtual/%u driver = sql } protocol imap { mail_plugins = " virtual imap_sieve" } -- Some books are undeservedly forgotten; none are undeservedly remembered
On 19.03.2018 23:19, @lbutlr wrote:> On 2018-03-19 (14:20 MDT), Odhiambo Washington <odhiambo at gmail.com> wrote: >> I have been running FreeBSD since 1997, so I know quite a lot about it! >> I know about /etc/syslog.conf, but you do realize now that you are conflicting yourself? > No, I am not, I pointed out that dovecot does not writ ether logs, but that is a task generally managed by syslogd. then I said that in my case it was rsyslogd. > >> You want to provide doveconf -n output and get help, or figure it out yourself. > the only lines in doveconf -n that relate to logging are the two lines I posted. The rest of dovecot's logging properly shows up in /var/log/dovecot, only the bcc delivery seems to error out. > >> I run dovecot and Exim (MTA) on FreeBSD. I don't use syslogd to do the logging as the same can be controlled within the respective daemons. >> So, figure out what you have done to make Postfix want to write to /var/log/dovecot.log. > I never said postfix was writing to dovecot's log. What gave you that idea? > > # doveconf -n > # 2.2.34 (874deae): /usr/local/etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf > # Pigeonhole version 0.4.22 (22940fb7) > # OS: FreeBSD 11.1-RELEASE-p4 i386 > # Hostname: mail.covisp.net > auth_failure_delay = 5 secs > auth_mechanisms = PLAIN LOGIN > default_client_limit = 4096 > default_process_limit = 1024 > default_vsz_limit = 768 M > disable_plaintext_auth = no > first_valid_uid = 89 > imap_id_log = * > lda_mailbox_autocreate = yes > lda_mailbox_autosubscribe = yes > log_path = /var/log/dovecotThis will disable syslog usage. Also if you use dovecot-lda you probably should run it as root, and let it setuid to target user. It's not 100% required, but does make some things easier. Aki
On Mar 20, 2018, at 01:23, Aki Tuomi <aki.tuomi at dovecot.fi> wrote:> This will disable syslog usage.Thank you, I?ll disable that and use rsyslogd to split out the dovecot related logging then. -- My main job is trying to come up with new and innovative and effective ways to reject even more mail. I'm up to about 97% now.