diff --git a/roles/distgit/pagure/templates/pagure.cfg b/roles/distgit/pagure/templates/pagure.cfg
index 4551d5b2c3..d8152e1c22 100644
--- a/roles/distgit/pagure/templates/pagure.cfg
+++ b/roles/distgit/pagure/templates/pagure.cfg
@@ -181,6 +181,76 @@ SSH_KEYS = {
 }
 {% endif %}
 
+from pagure.mail_logging import ContextInjector, MSG_FORMAT
+LOGGING = {
+    'version': 1,
+    'disable_existing_loggers': False,
+    'formatters': {
+        'standard': {
+            'format': '%(asctime)s [%(levelname)s] %(name)s: %(message)s'
+        },
+        'email_format': {
+            'format': MSG_FORMAT
+        }
+    },
+    'filters': {
+        'myfilter': {
+            '()': ContextInjector,
+        }
+    },
+    'handlers': {
+        'console': {
+            'level': 'INFO',
+            'formatter': 'standard',
+            'class': 'logging.StreamHandler',
+            'stream': 'ext://sys.stdout',
+        },
+        'email': {
+            'level': 'ERROR',
+            'formatter': 'email_format',
+            'class': 'logging.handlers.SMTPHandler',
+            'mailhost': 'localhost',
+            'fromaddr': 'pagure@localhost',
+            'toaddrs': 'root@localhost',
+            'subject': 'ERROR on pagure',
+            'filters': ['myfilter'],
+        },
+    },
+    # The root logger configuration; this is a catch-all configuration
+    # that applies to all log messages not handled by a different logger
+    'root': {
+        'level': 'INFO',
+        'handlers': ['console', 'email'],
+    },
+    'loggers': {
+        'pagure': {
+            'handlers': ['console'],
+            'level': 'DEBUG',
+            'propagate': True
+        },
+        'flask': {
+            'handlers': ['console'],
+            'level': 'INFO',
+            'propagate': False
+        },
+        'sqlalchemy': {
+            'handlers': ['console'],
+            'level': 'WARN',
+            'propagate': False
+        },
+        'binaryornot': {
+            'handlers': ['console'],
+            'level': 'WARN',
+            'propagate': True
+        },
+        'pagure.lib.encoding_utils': {
+            'handlers': ['console'],
+            'level': 'WARN',
+            'propagate': False
+        },
+    }
+}
+
 
 # Configuration item that are specific for this odd pagure instance