On Fri, 6 May 2016, Gary Stainburn wrote:
What I didn't expect, and what really threw me was that this has been implemented via a simply 'yum update' of an existing system, not at a major release level.
journald has been there since you installed C7.
You appear to have seen a change in logging behaviour as a result of an update. Whether that's due to an update of dovecot, systemd, or something else, I have no idea.
Something like RHEL is stuck in a trap here. Either they never change a default post-install (lots of rpmnew or deliberately not introducing new behaviours), or they bring in defaults as you update (to some extent doing things like rpmsave). Some people would complain whichever option they chose.
jh