Dovecot Error Log
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------------------------ Check Spelling Like Pages Local Site Map ------------------------ Rename Page Delete Page ------------------------ Subscribe User ------------------------ Remove Spam Revert to this revision Package Pages ------------------------ postfix error log Load Save SlideShow Contents Dovecot Logging Internal Errors Changing Log exim error log File Paths Syslog Example Rotating Logs Logging verbosity Dovecot Logging Dovecot always logs a detailed error
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message if something goes wrong. If it doesn't, it's considered a bug and will be fixed. However, almost always the problem is that you're looking at the
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wrong log file; error messages may be logged to a different file than informational messages. You can find the log file locations by running: doveadm log findBy default Dovecot logs to syslog using mail facility. You can change the facility from syslog_facility setting. The syslog configuration is often in /etc/syslog.conf or /etc/rsyslog* files. dovecot error chown You can also configure Dovecot to write to log files directly, see below. When using syslog, Dovecot uses 5 different logging levels: debug: Debug-level message. info: Informational messages. warning: Warnings that don't cause an actual error, but are useful to know about. err: Non-fatal errors. crit: Fatal errors that cause the process to die. Where exactly these messages are logged depends entirely on your syslog configuration. Often everything is logged to /var/log/mail.log or /var/log/maillog, and err and crit are logged to /var/log/mail.err. This is not necessarily true for your configuration though. In an ideal configuration the errors would be logged to a separate file than non-errors. For example you could set syslog_facility=local5 and set: local5.* -/var/log/dovecot.log local5.warning;local5.error;local5.crit -/var/log/dovecot-errors.logHere all the Dovecot messages get logged into dovecot.log, while all the important error/warning messages get logged into dovecot-errors.log. Internal Errors If IMAP or POP3 processes encounter some error, they don't show the exact reason for clients. Instead they
May 25, 2004 4:40 PM +0200 dovecot auth error Marten Lehmann
To turn on debug mode in Dovecot, please update below parameter error log in Dovecot config file dovecot.conf: mail_debug = yes Restart Dovecot service. If you need authentication and password related debug message, turn on related settings dovecot error log and restart dovecot service. auth_verbose = yes auth_debug = yes auth_debug_passwords = yes auth_verbose_passwords = yes If Dovecot service cannot start, please run it manually, it will print the error message on console: dovecot -c /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf All documents are available in BitBucket repository, and published under Creative Commons license. You can download the latest version for offline reading. If you found something wrong, please do contact us to fix it.
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