2011/11/25 Ralf Hildebrandt <ralf.hildebra...@charite.de>: > * Vincenzo Romano <vincenzo.rom...@notorand.it>: >> Hi all. >> My application uses the sendmail interface of its local postfix >> installation to send emails, a few thousand a day. >> Of course, this has been working pretty fine so far. >> Now I'd need to be able to track these emails and the best thing I >> could do is to "somehow" obtain from sendmail/postfix >> the message-ID it generated to each single submission so I can later >> check the logs about delays and so on. >> I've not been able to find a reliable way to do it as my issue is that >> I can send several emails to the same destination address within a few >> seconds and simply use the destination address and the (supposed) >> submission timestamp won't help much. >> Any idea whether this is doable and how to? > > Rather use SMTP injection and then use the queueid: > > MAIL FROM:<hil...@charite.de> > 250 2.1.0 Ok > RCPT TO:<vincenzo.rom...@notorand.it> > 250 2.1.5 Ok > DATA > 354 End data with <CR><LF>.<CR><LF> > foo > . > 250 2.0.0 Ok: queued as 3Sqgph2ghTz2r0b <-------- ! > QUIT >
Yes, that's the SMTP dialogue. But it seems to me that the sendmail (or any other postfix tool) can provide it to be on a per-submission basis ...
