Dovecot Logrotate

Somehow I have missed configuring logrotate to do its magic on the Dovecot log files, lets fix that.

Create /etc/logrotate.d/dovecot and put this inside:

/var/log/mail/dovecot*.log {
  missingok
  monthly
  notifempty
  delaycompress
  sharedscripts
  postrotate
        doveadm log reopen
  endscript
}

To force the rotation, use this command:

$ logrotate --force /etc/logrotate.conf

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