Re: [exim] separate log file for deliveries

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Author: Stanislaw Halik
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To: exim-users
Subject: Re: [exim] separate log file for deliveries
On Mon, Nov 20, 2006, Ted Cooper wrote:
>> I'd like to make the log file a bit more comprehensible. In mainlog,
>> all contents of rejectlog are printed, along with all successful
>> deliveries. I'd like to have all successful deliveries, lines like
>> these:


>> 2006-11-20 12:58:54 1Gm7nX-0002Wz-EP <= [cut for brevity]
>> 2006-11-20 12:58:54 1Gm7nX-0002Wz-EP => sthalik [same here]


>> in a separate log file.


>> While reading the spec file, I haven't found any mention of creating
>> custom log files, as opposed to mainlog, rejectlog and paniclog. Is such
>> a thing possible right now?


> Just run an exigrep over the log file.. my personal favourite:


> #exigrep "<=" /var/log/exim/main


> 2006-11-20 19:47:03 1Gm4nv-0001bE-0x <= zul@???
> H=(cbhomehunters.com) [201.240.240.19] P=smtp S=2718
> id=000001c70c88$c04aed90$38d2a8c0@lkzu
> 2006-11-20 19:47:04 1Gm4nv-0001bE-0x => eximx1805
> <eximx1805@???> R=spamtraps T=spamtrap
> 2006-11-20 19:47:04 1Gm4nv-0001bE-0x Completed


> 2006-11-20 19:48:56 1Gm4pj-0001bg-H1 <= lysandery@???
> H=zj067039.ppp.dion.ne.jp (fujisawa.com) [222.4.67.39] P=smtp S=2781
> id=000001c70c88$c6933450$abc3a8c0@jidiusf
> 2006-11-20 19:48:56 1Gm4pj-0001bg-H1 => exim <exim@???>
> R=spamtraps T=spamtrap
> 2006-11-20 19:48:56 1Gm4pj-0001bg-H1 Completed


> (ahhh.. spam traps.. notice how they are addresses that get scraped off
> this list!!)


By the way, could you share me some tips on populating spamtraps with
nasty mail? Found virtually no docs through Google.

I tried posting test messages with various addresses to Usenet, but it
might take a long while to get chickenboners interested in 'em. If ever.
Tried scraping mangled addresses off my dear users, too, but only got a
handful of 'em.

> .. will give you a list of every single mail that came in for that log
> file along with all actions associated with it. Not exactly
> chronological but it gets the useful information out.
> There's no change needed to the logging at all, this just changes how
> you read them.


> There are also utilities out there to turn them into pretty looking
> coloured web pages.. and then there's also eximstats.


Wow. I just discovered eximstats. I recall trying to roll up my own,
showing counts of individual rejects. But this is plainly awesome, if
only I knew about it earlier! Kudos!

Accidentally, I stumbled upon such a wonderful thingee:
<http://www.mail-archive.com/exim-users@exim.org/msg16893.html>
Is it, by chance, available for download? Inefficient or not, I could
finally make some sense of all these logs.