Re: [exim] "drop" verb and logging ..

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Author: Philip Hazel
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To: peter
CC: exim-users
Subject: Re: [exim] "drop" verb and logging ..
On Wed, 26 Jan 2005, Peter Bowyer wrote:

> On Wed, 26 Jan 2005 09:41:46 +0000 (GMT), Philip Hazel
> <ph10@???> wrote:
>
> > I never thought that people want not to log denial incidents. "My host
> > tried to send a message to yours, but you blocked it." "There is no
> > record of that on my logs." Hmm.
>
> A sign of the times, I think. Some proportion in the the high 90%s of
> denials are of no interest to either party....


The "right" way of doing this is probably to add something more general
rather than more and more specialized logging flags. There's already a
WishList item to add some kind of log message filtering facility.

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Philip Hazel            University of Cambridge Computing Service,
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