Logging headers and report in syslog

[Christopher Moore]

Hi Julian,

Many thanks, I'm on the case as I'm typing :-)

Regards, Chris.


Quoting Julian Field <mailscanner at ECS.SOTON.AC.UK>:

> At 20:49 13/04/2003, you wrote:
> >Hi,
> >
> >For all Spam or virus infected messages I would like to be able to log the
> To:
> >From: and Subject: headers, message size and spam or virus report.
> >Could anyone point me to the best place in the code to do this or indeed
> >supply
> >a patch :-) I'm running MailScanner-4.14-9, SpamAssasin-2.53 and kaspersky
> AV.
> >
> >It would be fantastic to be able to have this info' recorded for virus
> >infected
> >messages and Spam.
>
> Take a look at the SQL logging code in CustomConfig.pm. Should give you a
> good starting point, you can easily modify it to output to text files
> instead of a database if that's what you want.
>
> But you might want to consider outputting to a database, as you need to
> remember that there are multiple MailScanner processes, all wanting to log
> at the same time.
>
> >I would like to be able to produce reports from the logs of the form:
> >
> >Problem: Spam/Virus
> >From: chh at iii.com
> >To: me at tyuytu.gg.com
> >Size: 3000
> >Report: Spam score ddd RED_COLOUR .... / EICAR test file ...
> >
> >Regards, Chris.
>
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