Re: [exim] Logging syntax and protocol errors

On Thu, 18 Jan 2007, Philip Hazel wrote:
> 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.

Fair enough, maybe a change for Exim 5?

> I suppose adding a log_selector to the default configuration so that new
> sites get these options might arguably be reasonable.

That sounds like a good compromise to me.

Neil Youngman