On Thu, 18 Jan 2007, Neil Youngman wrote:
> I see that syntax and protocol errors are not logged by default and I
> was wondering why this is?
They came along later. It might have been different had they been there
at the start.
> In my opinion this is unhelpful and smtp_protocol_error and
> smtp_syntax_error should be part of the defaults for option
> log_selector.
Changing this in the code might make a lot of sites' log files suddenly
jump hugely in size - a lot of ratware makes these errors and not all
sites want to log them all all the time.
I suppose adding a log_selector to the default configuration so that new
sites get these options might arguably be reasonable.
For myself, I'm loath to change, for compatibility reasons. What do
other people think?
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