Authentication failures are only logged to the syslog when the "log-level" option is "verbose" or "excessive". Logging them at lower levels could allow one misconfigured mail client to quickly fill a server's logs with failure messages.
Yes, my mention of "full log files" was in reference to the "full-log-dir" option. -- Sam Clippinger David Bo Jensen wrote: > All right, but I think I don't see any authentication failure notification > either when the password is incorrect. > It would be nice to see if somebody on my local network repeatingly tries to > login. > > "only appear in full log files" you mean only when the full-log-dir is set? > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Sam Clippinger" <[email protected]> > To: "spamdyke users" <[email protected]> > Sent: Friday, September 25, 2009 6:00 PM > Subject: Re: [spamdyke-users] I do not get ALLOWED_AUTHENTICATED > > > >> The "ALLOWED_AUTHENTICATED" message will only appear in full log files, >> not in the syslog messages. When an authenticated connection is >> allowed, you will see "ALLOWED" in the syslog and the "auth:" field will >> contain the username. >> >> I should probably reword the documentation to make this more clear. >> >> -- Sam Clippinger >> >> David Bo Jensen wrote: >> >>> I only get ALLOWED >>> I have >>> server:/var/log# cat /etc/spamdyke.conf >>> access-file=/etc/spamdyke-relay >>> smtp-auth-level=always >>> smtp-auth-command=/usr/bin/checkpassword /bin/true >>> relay-level=normal >>> >>> >>> >>> server:/etc# cat spamdyke-relay >>> 192.168.1.:deny >>> 127.0.0.1:allow >>> :deny >>> >>> It should deny everything unless then sender authenticates. But >>> clients on >>> 192.168.1. seem able to send mails which >>> only prints ALLOWED in the logfile and not ALLOWED_AUTHENTICATED. >>> log-level is info >>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------ >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> spamdyke-users mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> http://www.spamdyke.org/mailman/listinfo/spamdyke-users >>> >>> >> _______________________________________________ >> spamdyke-users mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://www.spamdyke.org/mailman/listinfo/spamdyke-users >> > > _______________________________________________ > spamdyke-users mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.spamdyke.org/mailman/listinfo/spamdyke-users > _______________________________________________ spamdyke-users mailing list [email protected] http://www.spamdyke.org/mailman/listinfo/spamdyke-users
