Hi everyone,
I've sent the following suggestion to Phil. Though he put it on the
wishlist, he pointed out that other poeple may have other opinions about
this - so I present it to the list for you
to discuss (and I just subscribed, btw :-)
Regards,
Thomas
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Date: Mittwoch, 10. April 2002 10:59 +0100
From: Thomas Brettinger <tb@???>
To: Philip Hazel <ph10@???>
Subject: Exim 4 suggestion
Hi Phil,
I'm a rather new user of exim and I'm quite happy with it for now. (I admit
I used smail ages ago, so my fingers still remembered the configuration
scheme)
I use two exim Processes, one for queuing only of incoming mail,
then mailscanner does some processing (virus scan), and the other
exim process then delivers the mail.
Everything works as expected.
One thing that I'd find useful though, is to make exim's name it
sends to syslog configurable (or, alternatively, use argv[0]), so
that I can distinguish which instance was sending a particular
line to syslog. (I know that I could abandon syslog logging and write to
different logfiles - well, it's not THAT important, but
would be nice)
>From log.c:
--snip--
# ifndef NO_OPENLOG
if (!syslog_open)
{
openlog("exim", LOG_PID|LOG_CONS, LOG_MAIL);
syslog_open = TRUE;
}
# endif
--snip--
So for me it would be nice if I could have one instance log as "exim-in",
the other one as "exim-out" so I clearly know where to
search in case of problems.
I'm not on the discussion mailing list, but if you think it's useful, I
could take the subject there.
Regards,
Thomas
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