[Dovecot] real_rip variable addition for dovecot 2.1.10

[Jack Bates]

Umm, yeah. Setting your rsyslog to pipe certain IP matches to another 
file really screws things up when you change the log to include that IP. 
Hours of work before I figured out that it was logging just fine but to 
another file. lol


Jack

On 10/16/2012 5:51 PM, Jack Bates wrote:
> Still have some problems with the patch. will have to research it 
> more. Worked fine on localhost, but isn't logging at all for foreign 
> hosts in a production environment.
>
>
> Jack
>
> On 10/16/2012 3:43 PM, Jack Bates wrote:
>> Timo,
>>
>> Please check the code. I didn't add it, but a real_lip might be 
>> useful for some people as well. Also, I notice that pop3-proxy is 
>> doing a different xsession than the imap proxy. Is there an xsession 
>> standard that is different between the two, or just an oversight in 
>> the code? Both send the remote address/port, but only imap proxy 
>> sends the local address/port.
>>
>> This patch declares long variable %{real_rip} so that a backend 
>> server can declare a different login_log_format_elements
>> login_log_format_elements = user=<%u> method=%m rip=%r lip=%l 
>> pip=%{real_rip} mpid=%e %c
>>
>> This is primarily useful for backend servers to log both the rip, 
>> lip, and in case of xsession, the real rip. I haven't done extensive 
>> testing yet, but as long as nothing does anything weird elsewhere in 
>> the code, it should be good.
>>
>> http://www.brightok.net/jbates/dovecot-2.1.10-real-ip.patch
>>
>> dovecot: pop3-login: Login: user=<test>, method=PLAIN, 
>> rip=192.168.1.5, lip=::1, pip=::1, mpid=8665, secured
>>
>>
>> Jack Bates
>>
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