Request: Pigeonhole - strip CWFS from message-id logs

Stephan Bosch stephan at rename-it.nl
Thu Jan 3 18:29:38 EET 2019


Op 30-11-2018 om 14:06 schreef Lee Maguire:
> Normally for a log line containing the contents of a Message-Id, it is logged like the following
>
>    Nov 29 11:41:27 xxx dovecot[211]: lmtp(lee)<30167><XXXXX>: sieve: msgid=<xxxx at example.net>: stored mail into mailbox 'Notifications'
>
> However, if there is CFWS other than a space, it changes the format of the log line (potentially making the logs harder to process - eg via “logcheck" rules)
>
>    Nov 29 11:50:09 xxx dovecot[401]: lmtp(lee)<55724><XXXXX>: sieve: msgid=? <xxxx at example.com>: stored mail into mailbox ‘Notifications'
>
> A message-id line broken up is valid per RFC 5322 and header whitespace shouldn’t be significant for logging purposes
>
>    https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc5322#section-3.6.4
>    https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc5322#section-3.2.2


Yes, that is a bug.


Regards,

Stephan.



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