On Mon Oct 14 13:41:40 2013, Andreas Schulze wrote: > I plan a migration to dovecot and have concerns about the amount of logged > data. > On a testsystem dovecot produced 1TB syslog per day with a comparable amount > of pop3 sessions. > > The current server log to STDOUT which is connected to multilog > (circular buffer, http://cr.yp.to/daemontools/multilog.html) > That way I can have a look at the last activities to any time. > > I like to have that in dovecot too. But since dovecot uses syslog > it's not possible to adopt 1:1 I'm a bit late, but what's wrong with
log_path = /dev/stderr We have been using multilog for dovecot for a long time. One problem, though: delivery logs will probably land somewhere else than server logs. Yours Jost Krieger -- | jost.krieger+...@ruhr-uni-bochum.de Please help stamp out spam! | | Postmaster, JAPH, resident answer machine at RUB Comp. Center | | Sincere words are not sweet, sweet words are not sincere. | | Lao Tse, Tao Te King 81 |
