Re: [exim] Logging stats via script?

On 29/04/2008, Sander Smeenk <ssmeenk@???> wrote:
> Quoting Marc Silver (marcs@???):
>
> > Can anyone point me in the right direction here or tell me where the
> > correct place for this would be? I'm using Exim 4.69.
>
> I once did such a thing with a system_filter logging exactly what i
> wanted to the exim mainlog, which i then parsed with a script. Ofcourse
> i don't have this configuration anymore.
>
> It wouldn't be good for your performance to have Exim run a script for
> every message passing through. System_filter, the Exim logfiles and
> perhaps perl_startup will probably help you!

Even more lightweight: write a daemon which listens for logging data
on a socket, and use Exim's ${readsocket functionality in a suitable
place in the config to send to it.

Peter

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