On 06/15/2010 11:54 PM, Noel Jones wrote: > On 6/15/2010 4:30 PM, Jeroen Geilman wrote: >>> >>> Hi, >>> >>> Postfix smtp logs outgoing emails like this: >>> >>> postfix/smtp[13950]: E6DA025473: to=<u...@domain.tld>, relay=none, >>> delay=4537, delays=4536/0.06/0.53/0, dsn=4.4.1, status=etc... >>> >>> I noticed that when an email has more than one receipient, smtp will log >>> separate messages, one for every receipient. Will smtp always do this, >>> or are there circumstances where smtp will not log every receipient >>> separately? >>> >>> Kind regards, >>> >>> Erik. >> >> Postfix logs one line for each queued message - it has to, because each >> queued message has a temporally unique queue-ID. > > That should be "at least one line". Postfix qmgr logs each time a > message enters the active queue. > >> >> Each queued message has one recipient. > > No, a message may have many recipients. Every smtp recipient is logged, > each in its own log entry. For a given message, qmgr will log the total > number of recipients as nrcpt=N. Individual recipients of that message > can be correlated via the QUEUEID. > > > > -- Noel Jones
Ah, the answer to my question was given by Noel and entered my inbox seconds after I sent my last email. So never mind that next question, thanks Noel for explaining.
