Thanks Sam, that is very informative! I guess what I'm struggling with is the ability to actually correlate all that stuff in the log with the actual delivered message file. I was hoping there would be some possible way of doing that.
I can follow the id's in the log and trace everything that happens, but I don't know which message it is, all I know is the recipient(s). So if a user asks "what happened to my message such and such", I have no way of determining that. That's the sort of thing I was trying to figure out. The traceability provided in the mail log is wonderful for manually analyzing and debugging, but if I want to trace a particular message, simply knowing the recipient (or sender) plus the subject, I can't. :-( That's why I wondered if there was any sort of custom logging capabilities... if I could for example log the message subject, at least it would give me an additional parameter for logging/tracing. Ricardo On Mon, 4 Aug 2003, Sam Varshavchik wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > > Is there any way to configure the mail logging such that it > > outputs a common identifier, such as perhaps the contents of > > Message-ID header field? > > The Message-ID: header is completely meaningless. Very often different > messages have the same exact Message-ID: header. > > The only thing you can count on is the id= field in the mail logs. Such as: > > Aug 3 01:35:03 ny courierd: newmsg,id=000C3016.3F2C9F07.000056F2: unknown; uucp > (brimstone!uucp) > > Each message will have a unique id field (and a give message may have > multiple recipients). Extracting everything in the mail logs that carry the > same id= field will tell you everything that happened to the message. > > The first entry for a given message will always be "newmsg,id=". > > The last entry for a given message will always be "completed,id=", > indicating that all recipients have been delivered to (a failure is still > considered as a completed delivery, albeit one that resulted in a failure), > and may be logged as much as a week later. > > Everything in the meantime will be logged. Every delivery attempt, every > recipient, every outcome. > > > ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email sponsored by: Free pre-built ASP.NET sites including Data Reports, E-commerce, Portals, and Forums are available now. Download today and enter to win an XBOX or Visual Studio .NET. http://aspnet.click-url.com/go/psa00100003ave/direct;at.aspnet_072303_01/01 _______________________________________________ courier-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/courier-users
