Howdy, folks-
I've written perl code to unpeel exim's log file, so that I can
extract the state of a message. I have to admit, I could get along
a lot father than I could with qmail ( that was a revealing excercise,
mind you...)
Anyway, I'm having fun reverse engineering the various fields in
the various status lines. Evrtything so far is fairly obvious,
but, as there is no documentation [ that I've found yet] that
document what they are, I have to wait until I've discovered a new
one, then attempt to infer it's meaning.
My latest challange:
I generated this error message while playing with /etc/aliases:
1997-01-27 18:34:56 0vp0Zj-0000tq-00 == bounced@???
D=system_aliases defer (-17): failed to open /etc/aliases for linear search:
Permission denied
I, as a human, can read what this means. But how can I differentiate
this sort of a message, from one prefixed with a 'T='?
( For what it's worth, I like how this code is shaping up. Other
than reading the source to exim, is there a comprehensive list of
what various elements of the messages mean? Clearly there has been
care taken in choosing the 'X=' delineators... )
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