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

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Author: Philip Hazel
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To: Tony Finch
CC: exim-users
Subject: Re: [exim] "drop" verb and logging ..
On Thu, 27 Jan 2005, Tony Finch wrote:

> I find I often want to grep for lines only related to messages we
> accepted, so I think it would be useful to have a log file containing
> everything except the contents of the rejectlog. Grepping the whole
> mainlog is time-consuming, given that ours are about 500MB/day, and the
> machines don't have enough RAM to keep it in the buffer cache on the off
> chance I need to do some searching.


Clearly the changing nature of the email load is causing people to want
different things. I am even more convinced that the solution from Exim's
point of view is to implement hooks for filtering log lines. Then you
can split them up any way you want.


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