Might be a feature request

[Michele Neylon :: Blacknight Solutions]

John

It does most of that already, although you may need to "dig" more for it. If
you increase the level of loggin at those points I could easily foresee an
increase in overheads, thus slowing down a process that by its very nature
needs to be as fast as possible.

M

Mr Michele Neylon
Blacknight Internet Solutions Ltd
http://www.blacknight.ie/
Tel. +353 59 9137101


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> [mailto:MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK] On Behalf Of John Rudd
> Sent: 22 May 2004 04:14
> To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
> Subject: [MAILSCANNER] Might be a feature request
>
> Is there a way to make mailscanner put message numbers into
> its syslog messagse?
>
>
> I know it does this when it finds an issue (a virus or marks
> a message as spam), but I'm also talking about:
>
>
> 1) when it finds messages for scanning.  For example:
>
> May 20 10:48:09 copper.ucsc.edu MailScanner[29086]: New
> Batch: Found 3 messages waiting
>
> This doesn't tell me which messages it just picked up.  It
> would be nice to know.  It would be nice to see:
>
> May 20 10:48:09 copper.ucsc.edu MailScanner[29086]: New
> Batch: Found 3 messages waiting: $FOO $BAR $BAZ
>
>
> 2) when it's sending them back to the MTA.  Right now, I
> don't see syslog entries for this stage at all (the only time
> you know a process finished with its current batch is that it
> picks up a new batch later on).
>
> It would be nice to see something like:
>
> May 20 10:48:09 copper.ucsc.edu MailScanner[29086]: Finshed
> Batch: $FOO $BAR $BAZ
>
>
> 3) when spam is found, mailscanner makes a syslog entry
> saying what it's doing (spam actions are deliver, or
> whatever).  It would be nice to see that for viruses,
> filename checks, filetype checks, and other checks.
> If mailscanner is going to delete a message, bounce it, etc.
> I'd like to see the syslog entry along with the message ID.
>
>
>
> These would make it easier, if things fail, to help track
> down what happened where and when.
>
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