[Dovecot] v2.0 lmtp logging

Pascal Volk user+dovecot at localhost.localdomain.org
Sat Oct 24 02:36:18 EEST 2009


On 10/24/2009 12:34 AM Timo Sirainen wrote:
> On Sat, 2009-10-24 at 00:02 +0200, Pascal Volk wrote:
>> I think it would be useful if the lmtp would also log new connections.
>> For example:
>> a) TCP connections:
>> lmtp: Info: Connection: rip=10.1.2.3, lip=10.1.2.5, cid=1255555555.12345
>> b) Socket connections:
>>  lmtp: Info: Connection: via socket, cid=1255555777.10452
> 
> Maybe this could be merged somehow with login_log_format* settings,
> since they're pretty similar..

Call them connect_log_format and disconnect_log_format, because there is
no login/logout w/o LMTPA(S).

>> cid:
>>     The 'connection ID', consists of the current unix time and the pid
>>     of the lmtp process. (Or some other values in some other format)
>>>> would see something like '250 2.0.0 OK: 1255555555.12345 Saved',
>>> 
> Sounds like the ESMTP id that SMTP servers add to Received: header.
> Perhaps LMTP should also be adding the header?

Yes, because LMTP is identical to ESMTP, except the few points from RFC2033.


Regards,
Pascal
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