Author: Marc Sherman Date: To: exim-users Subject: Re: [exim] Maillog explaination
kai4785 wrote: > I am having difficulty finding an explaination for some of the entries
> in /var/log/maillog. For example:
>
> Apr 24 12:56:39 box29 pop3d: TIMEOUT, user=email@domain,
> ip=[::ffff:123.123.123.123], top=0, retr=407317, time=4954
>
> I don't have a solid answer for what 'top', 'retr', and 'time' values
> are. I have a specific user that is generating a log very much like the
> one above.
>
> I assume 'retr' are number of retries, and 'time' is number of seconds
> the session was open. Can you verify for me that this is the server
> trying to connect to the client to respond with the requseted
> information?
>
> While I'm here, I am also interested in the imapd values:
> Apr 20 04:19:31 box29 imapd: DISCONNECTED, user=email@???,
> ip=[::ffff:127.0.0.1], headers=0, body=711, time=0
>
> This is a webmail session that was disconnected, I assume because the
> client closed the browser window while trying to retreive something,
> but I'm not quite sure.
