Hi everyone,
Thanks so much for the explanations and links, etc, it makes a lot more
sense now.
@Chris -> Thanks for the link to exilog. I installed it and everything
seemed to run, but it didn't get any data. I did run the agent, saw it
logging to exilog.log and it updated the heartbeat table, so not sure
why, will have to investigate when I have a little more time, but it
would save a lot of effort if I could get it working.
Thanks again everyone,
Regards,
John Mc Murray
john@???
On 19/02/2014 22:22, Viktor Dukhovni - exim-users@??? wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 19, 2014 at 09:38:21PM +0200, John Mc Murray wrote:
>
>> I'm writing a bit of software to log lines from the exim log file. I
>> am battling a little to get complete documentation and just need to
>> confirm the use of the P=esmtps and P=esmtpa values.
>>
>> From what I can tell, esmtpa is when mail is sent from an
>> authenticated user, so essentially, that's outgoing mail, from my
>> user's perspective.
>>
>> I can't find exactly what esmtps is, but it seems to be mail from
>> not authenticated users, ie, incoming mail from my user's
>> perspective.
> The "with <protocol>" clause of RFC 5321 trace (Received) headers,
> supports the following protocol values defined in RFC 3848
>
> SMTP = RFC 821 SMTP (HELO)
> ESMTP = RFC 2821 Extended SMTP (EHLO)
> ESMTPA = Authenticated ESMTP (AUTH)
> ESMTPS = "Secure" ESMTP (STARTTLS)
> ESMTPSA = Authenticaed ESMTPS (STARTTLS + AUTH)
>
> and registered by IANA at:
>
> http://www.iana.org/assignments/mail-parameters/mail-parameters.xhtml#mail-parameters-7
>
> There is no intentional correlation with email direction (inbound,
> or outbound), but of course generally authentication only happens
> when mail is intended to be relayed out. Inbound mail is permitted
> because the MTA is responsible for handling mail for the destination
> domain.
>