Thank you for the PR, this looks like a sensible change.

However, the checklist is not supposed to be shortened, it's supposed to be completed! I have re-added the missing points, please make sure to complete all the items and check them in the list. I have already ticked the items in the list that can be ticked.

Thank you for the PR, this looks like a sensible change.

However, the checklist is not supposed to be shortened, it's supposed to be completed! I have re-added the missing points, please make sure to complete all the items and check them in the list. I have already ticked the items in the list that can be ticked.

I'm sorry that I mishandled that. I can't see the missing points / check them in the list. Should I copy them from somewhere again and modify the pull request text myself?

I can't see the missing points / check them in the list. Should I copy them from somewhere again and modify the pull request text myself?

I've restored these.

I'm not sure if @georglauterbach is wanting them all addressed though (tests/docs), they don't seem necessary.

You should add a changelog entry, this seems suitable for the "Updates" section:

Just add something above the referenced like, such as:

- **Dovecot:**
  - `logwatch` now filters out non-error logs related to the status of the `index-worker` process for FTS indexing. ([#4012](https://github.com/docker-mailserver/docker-mailserver/pull/4012))

Regarding this contribution, do you have some samples of the logs you're preventing? I have seen here that there can be error logs that may be relevant to not ignore if they appear?

Jan 21 06:35:24 mailserver dovecot: indexer-worker: Error: terminate called after throwing an instance of 'std::bad_alloc'
Jan 21 06:35:24 mailserver dovecot: indexer-worker: Error: what(): std::bad_alloc
Jan 21 06:35:24 mailserver dovecot: indexer: Error: Indexer worker disconnected, discarding 1 requests for email@example.com
Jan 21 06:35:24 mailserver dovecot: indexer-worker(email@example.com)<16330><rgw7KfF/AJsqCqVDQq0AAD1inuN9Ly/l:UJw9Kz5ZRVzKPwAAhwicDQ>: Fatal: master: service(indexer-worker): child 16330 killed with signal 6 (core dumps disabled - https://dovecot.org/bugreport.html#coredumps)
Jan 21 06:35:24 mailserver dovecot: imap(email@example.com)<16326><rgw7KfF/AJsqCqVDQq0AAD1inuN9Ly/l>: Error: indexer failed to index mailbox INBOX

Whereas the goal seems to be more targeted around filtering these kind of logs out:

Jan 21 06:31:34 mailserver dovecot: indexer-worker(email@example.com)<16330><ZN42KfF//poqCqVDQq0AAD1inuN9Ly/l:Wut/Mf9YRVzKPwAAhwicDQ>: Indexed 5969 messages in Gesendet (UIDs 1..5972)
Jan 21 06:31:34 mailserver dovecot: indexer-worker(email@example.com)<16330><ZN42KfF//poqCqVDQq0AAD1inuN9Ly/l:8BYpLzZZRVzKPwAAhwicDQ>: Start indexing 'Papierkorb' (/srv/mailstore/example.com/email/xapian-indexes/db_90dda8344dfc3158af39000087089c0d)
Jan 21 06:31:42 mailserver dovecot: indexer-worker(email@example.com)<16330><ZN42KfF//poqCqVDQq0AAD1inuN9Ly/l:8BYpLzZZRVzKPwAAhwicDQ>: Done indexing 'Papierkorb'
Jan 21 06:31:42 mailserver dovecot: indexer-worker(email@example.com)<16330><ZN42KfF//poqCqVDQq0AAD1inuN9Ly/l:8BYpLzZZRVzKPwAAhwicDQ>: Indexed 1012 messages in Papierkorb (UIDs 1..3588)
Jan 21 06:31:42 mailserver dovecot: indexer-worker(email@example.com)<16330><rgw7KfF/AJsqCqVDQq0AAD1inuN9Ly/l:UJw9Kz5ZRVzKPwAAhwicDQ>: Start indexing 'INBOX' (/srv/mailstore/example.com/email/xapian-indexes/db_28c518021bee30580b02000087089c0d)

Keywords in these logs are dovecot: indexer-worker + Indexed / Start indexing (or xapian-indexes, possibly too specific) / Done indexing.

I see the regex is targeting one keyword pair there but will still include the start/done log lines, is that still desired? The error logs should remain, so no problem there.

For maintainers - Reference links related to the Dovecot indexer process and FTS:

• https://doc.dovecot.org/configuration_manual/service_configuration/#indexer
• https://doc.dovecot.org/3.0/man/doveadm-indexer.1/
• https://doc.dovecot.org/3.0/man/doveadm-index.1/
• https://doc.dovecot.org/configuration_manual/fts/

Indeed, we don't no l need most of the points, so I ticked them, too. The CHANGELOG update is the most important one :)

so I ticked them, too

That'd be misleading as no such changes were done. Removing those lines is fine, I've edited to drop those redundant checklist items.

@mmehnert just update CHANGELOG.md as per suggestion above and consider the feedback on the regex, you should be good to go.

Regarding this contribution, do you have some samples of the logs you're preventing? I have seen here that there can be error logs that may be relevant to not ignore if they appear?

I was explicitly only targeting messages of the form

Jan 21 06:31:34 mailserver dovecot: indexer-worker(email@example.com)<16330><ZN42KfF//poqCqVDQq0AAD1inuN9Ly/l:Wut/Mf9YRVzKPwAAhwicDQ>: Indexed 5969 messages in Gesendet (UIDs 1..5972)

Interestingly in my setup I don't have the messages containing "Start indexing" and "Done indexing". So I did not include a regexp for those. @polarathene do you encounter those messages in your installation? If so, I'm happy to add the necessary two lines to ignore.conf

The error messages like

Jan 21 06:35:24 mailserver dovecot: indexer-worker: Error: terminate called after throwing an instance of 'std::bad_alloc'

should not be excluded in my opinion and are not matched by the regexp that I've put into ignore.conf

Thanks for the contribution! 😁

I'll leave this for another maintainer to approve before merging.

@polarathene do you encounter those messages in your installation?

I don't actually deploy DMS (ironic I know), and I can't configure a local instance with FTS to try it out myself any time soon 😓

If those log lines aren't present, I wouldn't worry about it. Either something changed since that report or we have a less verbose log from Dovecot configured. If someone is affected and it bothers them they're welcome to contribute another PR 👍