On Tue, Mar 18, 2014 at 06:25:40PM -0500, Jay G. Scott wrote: > > My maillog entries like like this: > > Mar 18 03:45:40 jgs postfix/pickup[20868]: [ID 197553 mail.info] 8C94B4F6B: > uid=0 from=<root> > > What is the "[ID 197553 mail.info]" part?
Your syslogd(8) inserts this data, Postfix does not generate this. Try:
man syslogd
(The "mail.info" part clearly records the log facility and priority.
The ID part is likely a message identifier for de-dup, ...).
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Viktor.
