On 13.5.2012, at 13.31, Reindl Harald wrote: > do we really need "session=<ugAua+i/ewBUcit1>" additional > to proxy log-lines? until this change it was possible on > a 24" screen with "tail -f /var/log/maillog" to watch > without linebreaks, now each proxy line breaks > > PLEASE reconsider such changes! > > May 13 12:27:38 mail dovecot: imap-login: proxy(*******@thelounge.net): > started proxying to 127.0.0.1:143: > user=<********@thelounge.net>, method=PLAIN, rip=********, lip=******, TLS, > session=<ugAua+i/ewBUcit1>
For login process lines you can configure this from login_log_format_elements setting. Anyway the session IDs are especially useful with proxying, since you can match proxy connections to backend connections easily by grepping for the session ID from both logs.
