Looks like dovecot is not sending stuff to syslog anymore I am getting some message in /tmp/dovecot.log. However the lmtp log files are not even created. bash-5.0# doveconf | grep log_ auth_policy_log_only = no debug_log_path deliver_log_format = msgid=%m: %$ doveadm_http_rawlog_dir imapc_rawlog_dir info_log_path lmtp_proxy_rawlog_dir = /tmp/lmtp-proxy.log lmtp_rawlog_dir = /tmp/lmtp.log log_core_filter log_debug log_path = /tmp/dovecot.log log_timestamp = "%b %d %H:%M:%S " login_log_format = %$: %s login_log_format_elements = user=<%u> method=%m rip=%r lip=%l mpid=%e %c session=<%{session}> mail_index_log_rotate_max_size = 1 M mail_index_log_rotate_min_age = 5 mins mail_index_log_rotate_min_size = 32 k mail_index_rewrite_max_log_bytes = 128 k mail_index_rewrite_min_log_bytes = 8 k mail_log_prefix = "%s(%u)<%{pid}><%{session}>: " pop3c_rawlog_dir rawlog_dir submission_relay_rawlog_dir syslog_facility = mail