split auth from other logging

Michael Slusarz
Mon, 01 Oct 2018 23:01:49 -0000

For later versions of 2.3.x, it will eventually be possible to use log filtering
to accomplish this entirely within Dovecot.  We are not quite there yet though.

michael


> On September 26, 2018 at 1:21 AM Kai Schaetzl <maillists at
conactive.com> wrote:
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> Is there a way to split the auth logging (logins and failed logins) from
> the other logging that goes to
> info_log_path = /var/log/dovecot/dovecot.log
> ?
> This log gets a lot of other info as well, most notably the lmtp
> notifications about every filed mail (with no level stamping, btw).
> This makes it really hard to find authentication errors quickly and
> comfortably.
> It would be nice to be able to split at least the lmtp messages away.
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> Kai
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