Include logrotate configuration

[Ryan Lovett]

The dovecot package does not include a logrotate configuration. If dovecot is configured to log to file rather than syslog its log file will become unmanageable. There is a recommended configuration here:

http://wiki.dovecot.org/Logging

# dovecot SIGUSR1: Re-opens the log files.
/var/log/dovecot*.log {
  missingok
  notifempty
  delaycompress
  sharedscripts
  postrotate
    /bin/kill -USR1 `cat /var/run/dovecot/master.pid 2>/dev/null` 2> /dev/null || true
  endscript
}

This configuration will not interfere if dovecot is configured to use syslog.

[Michael Zoet (michazoet-deactivatedaccount)]

I think this should be a whishlist feature request. Maybe contacting the package manager/mantainer?

[Bryce Harrington (bryce)]

It looks like dovecot still does not establish logrotation on installation, however its worth note that journalctl is the designated way to do log management these days. I would guess that after 12 years, people needing this behavior are either using journalctl instead, or have set up logrotation manually (it seems to be pretty well documented upstream), but before closing this I'll ask if anyone can make a case that it would still be worth implementing in the Ubuntu package?

[Ryan Lovett (ryan-spacecoaster)]

I don't use dovecot anymore and agree with @bryce. Its fine with me if you want to close this.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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