Feature Idea: MailScanner process name

[Jeff A. Earickson]

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I take the contrary point of view -- I log everything for all processes
(sendmail, MailScanner, popper, etc) into one file.  All facilities
and loglevels from syslogd.conf point to the same file.  Yes the
file is gigantic on my mail server (about 100 MB/day, rotated daily),
but everything is in one place waiting for grep to reveal what I 
want.  What happened to a mail message?  Grep for the msgid and see
both sendmail and MailScanner actions.  Want to know about a user?
Grep for userid to see sendmail, MailScanner, and POP actions.  Easy.
Behold the power of grep.

Jeff Earickson
Colby College

On Thu, 8 Dec 2005, Kai Schaetzl wrote:

> Date: Thu, 8 Dec 2005 19:31:24 +0100
> From: Kai Schaetzl <maillists at CONACTIVE.COM>
> Reply-To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
> To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
> Subject: Re: Feature Idea: MailScanner process name
> 
> Steve Freegard wrote on         Thu, 8 Dec 2005 16:36:47 +0000:
>
>> What do you think??
>
> I like that!
> BTW, on a somewhat related issue: I changed the logging facility of
> MailScanner, so that I get a separate log which consists of MailScanner
> actions only and no clutter in the normal mail log anymore. You can set
> the logging facility in MailScanner.conf, f.i. to "news" (which is
> unlikely for most systems to run on the same machine or at all) and then
> redirect news with /etc/syslogd.conf to /var/log/mailscanner.log or
> whatever you like. Don't forget a file for logrotate.d!
>
> Kai
>
> -- 
> Kai Schätzl, Berlin, Germany
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