On Mon, 2010-02-22 at 07:13 -0500, Wietse Venema wrote: > ram: > > > > On Sat, 2010-02-20 at 14:30 -0500, Victor Duchovni wrote: > > > On Sat, Feb 20, 2010 at 03:43:25PM +0530, ram wrote: > > > > > > > One of our clients sends contract notes to their customers and they > > > > require to store all logs of deliveries/bounces by some law. > > > > > > > > They have requirements like > > > > > > > > * The log should contain the full date including year > > > > * The log line should indicate full info --> > > > > sender,rcpt,datetime,size,status > > > > > > > > I have managed to add custom logs in postfix source in bounce.c and > > > > sent.c. (Thanks to the neatly structured code it wasnt much of an > > > > effort) > > > > > > > > > > > > Only problem is when a message expires there is no log line that says > > > > $queue-id: "$sender" to "$rcpt" status=expired > > > > > > > > How can I log this ? > > > > > > Collate the logs by message-id. What expired is the message, therefore, > > > all recipients not yet delivered are expired. > > > > > But when a message expires , the recipient not delivered is not logged > > at all.( Except for in status=deferred lines much much before the > > expiry ) > > Collating lines from different places in the logfile calls for some > > parsing. The parser may in itself be very trivial but I have to educate > > the client to read "collated" :-( > > > > > If the client uses a decently written bounce-bot, they can parse any > > > bounces and extract the undelivered recipients. > > > > > > > Perfect. > > We are already doing bounce handling at the bounce box. > > The real requirement here is just cosmetic: "We need logs of every > > single mail with *exact* status for 7 years" > > Record "status=deferred" just like "status=bounced" or "status=sent", > and when a message expires, use the last "status=deferred" information. > Thats a painful workaround. :-( Writing a clean log parser especially when your logs can get rotated anytime in between.
I was hoping for being able to insert a syslog of "rcpt=<$rcpt> status=<expired>" in the code. All these mails are single recipient mails. Nevertheless , There has been a learning for me. Not to accept weird requirements. Thanks a lot anyway Ram
