True. Courier is not the friendliest of programs when it comes to control of logging; however, not many programs are ultra-flexible about logging. Perhaps Sam could set a new standard...
Someone on the list wrote a log-file analyzer and posted a link to it a while back.
Personally I made a patch to suppress all the INFO logs. There are not so many lines to comment.
Daniel Goepp wrote: > > Right, but the problem with this is that it affects all mail programs > then. > > It would be nice if courier would allow control of its own logging, not > rely on system wide mail settings for logging configuration. > > And even one step further, it would be nice to have some control over > what is displayed. For example, right now I get three lines per mail > check (connect, login, logout). I would actually like to see mail > checks, but only if it could be contained to one line. So if > courierlogger would monitor and upon getting a successful connect, login > and logout from the same session, dump a line to mail.info. > > Thanks. Peace. > > -Daniel > > -----Original Message----- > From: William Hue [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, April 01, 2003 5:32 PM > To: Andy Ciordia > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [courier-users] Turning off logging > > Login/logout is logged at level mail.info while errors are logged at > mail.error (and above). So modify your syslog.conf (for Solaris, don't > know what the file is for other *nixes) to only log mail.error and > above. > > Andy Ciordia wrote: > > > > > Hi, > > > > > > Quick question. Is there way to turn on and off what is logged to > > > syslog with pop3d and imapd? I see how I can turn debugging on and > off. > > > But even with it off, I still get and entry for each login and > logout. I > > > want to leave logging on, in case there is an actual error, but I > don't > > > want to see every time someone checks their email. > > > > > > Thanks in advance for any help > > > > > > -Daniel > > > > I asked this about a year ago and got no response.. It doesn't > surprise > > me, but does sadden me to see that again this question goes > unanswered. I > > have to use a log parser to give me relevant data these days out of my > > mail log since courier pollutes it with login/logout data. > > > > Has anyone found better workarounds/hacks? Don't want to get kungfu > but I > > as well think that this should either should be an optional level of > > debugging, or go to its own log file all together. > > > > -a > > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > > This SF.net email is sponsored by: ValueWeb: > > Dedicated Hosting for just $79/mo with 500 GB of bandwidth! > > No other company gives more support or power for your dedicated server > > http://click.atdmt.com/AFF/go/sdnxxaff00300020aff/direct/01/ > > _______________________________________________ > > courier-users mailing list > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Unsubscribe: > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/courier-users
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