Andreas Pettersson wrote:

> Marten Lehmann wrote:
> 
> 
>><snip>
>>Btw., the mainlog is still hard to read as it is being cluttered up be 
>>the reject log entries. I remember, that long time ago it was announced 
>>that this will be changed in a future release. Is it that hard the keep 
>>the reject-log entries out of the mainlog?
>> 
>>
> 
> I second that. I had about 95% reject lines (and other 'trash' like "no 
> IP addr found for ...") in the mainlog and found no other way to fix 
> this than block the sewers (Comcast, RoadRunner and Verizon) in the 
> firewall instead of having them rejected. I could of course set up a 
> separate mail server and redirect connections from the sewers to this 
> one where it then gets properly rejected, but it requires something I 
> don't have right now, time.
> 

Exim's logging is *fully* configurable, both as to format (such as time) and 
trigger-event.

See 'log_selector' and the '+' and '-' options list.

In the extreme case, you can shut off nearly everything except what you 
specifically generate in your own acl's with 'logwrite' or 'log_message'.

Even there, you can decide *which* log the text is put into with:

:main:
:reject:
:panic:

- at the start of the text.

You can even use the otherwies (hopefully) idle 'paniclog' to build .csv format 
files for upload to a DB or spreadsheet:

log_write = :panic:,<field1>,<field2>,<field 'n'>

Bill


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