On Thu, 18 Jan 2007, Philip Hazel wrote: > On Thu, 18 Jan 2007, Neil Youngman wrote: > > > I see that syntax and protocol errors are not logged by default and I > > was wondering why this is? > > They came along later. It might have been different had they been there > at the start. > > > In my opinion this is unhelpful and smtp_protocol_error and > > smtp_syntax_error should be part of the defaults for option > > log_selector. > > Changing this in the code might make a lot of sites' log files suddenly > jump hugely in size - a lot of ratware makes these errors and not all > sites want to log them all all the time.
Fair enough, maybe a change for Exim 5? > I suppose adding a log_selector to the default configuration so that new > sites get these options might arguably be reasonable. That sounds like a good compromise to me. Neil Youngman
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