Re: parsing exim's log files

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Author: Philip Hazel
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To: Brian Reichert
CC: exim-users
Subject: Re: parsing exim's log files
On Tue, 28 Jan 1997, Brian Reichert wrote:

> I've written perl code to unpeel exim's log file, so that I can
> extract the state of a message.


The exigrep utility has some of this functionality, but just gives you
raw log lines, of course.

> ( 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... )


Chapter 31 of the manual ("Log files") is supposed to cover this. Please
let me know if there is information you feel is missing from it, and I
will attempt to put that right for the next edition.

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