On 03/12/2020 11.22, Christy S wrote:
> "Anything interesting in the dovecot logs at the time when you check?"
>
> So I looked up dovecot logs on google, and what I'm seeing is that dovecot
> generally writes to mail logs under /var/log. The stuff I sent in my first
> email came from mail.err in that folder. The only other file I could find was
> mail.log.
Unusual. You can find out the location of the log file with
doveconf log_path
Mine is /var/log/dovecot.log, but this will vary with OS.
Incidentally you can also use doveconf to see the current values of all config
items, which means that
doveconf -a > 201203_backup.conf
will give you a reference backup, and
doveconf -a | grep search_term
will let you look for the current value of likely items, try "dh" or "ssl"
But the definitive way to backup config would be to take a copy of
/etc/dovecot/ to make sure you get everything in the same layout.
> "google can also be out of date I'd recommend using a date filter when using
> it for checking configurations and limit it only to the last 1-2 years as you
> will get more relevant information typically."
Once you've done a search: Tools > Any Time > Past Year
P.
