It's pretty scary to try to get something useful
from courier's logs because there is no standard
format for log messages.
First: does anyone have a greppy perl script or such
that will make sense of the log files?
Second: does anyone object to coming up with a standard
way to format log messages?
Here are some ideas:
timestamp host level program class [structured] freeform
timestamp: maybe some iso format like 2004-08-12T23:54:52,
but I really don't care as long as it's standard.
It would be nice to record the year.
level = (debug|info|status|warning|error|critical...)
program = (courierd,esmtpd,courier-fax,courier-imap...)
class = one of a standard set of message types
structured = (key=value,...) where keys are [-a-zA-Z0-9_]+
and values have no whitespace or commas
freeform = anything goes
>From looking at my log files, and the courier source
(very quickly), I came up with these classes:
status (message status: stuff that would go in
access_log instead of error_log if we
were talking about a web server)
status-failure
status-success
status-success-delivered
status-deferred
status-rejected
status-rejected-bofh
status-rejected-bofh-sender
status-rejected-bofh-spamtrap
status-rejected-bofh-network (rbl, relay, bad mx...)
status-rejected-bofh-content (e.g. spamassasin)
status-cancelled
status-smtp
status-smtp-250
status-connect
status-connect-closed
error
error-system (errors from system and standard libary calls)
error-config (misconfigurations)
error-communication (unexpected input or output from another courier program)
error-protocol (protocol/rfc violations)
error-network (unexpected network conditions)
error-network-dns
error-network-connect (refused, timed-out, closed, ...)
error-internal (sumthin' ain't right)
error-denied
error-denied-baduser
error-denied-badpassword
error-external (error output from third-party programs)
error-smtp
error-smtp-517 ...
trace (program logic tracing)
Feedback please.
I am willing to go through the code and standardize
the current log messages if no one objects. (It won't
be all at once, but I'll get to it a little at a time.)
Dream BIG!
-- Terrel
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