> > wietse: > > > Sorry, it is unwise to log the details of every SMTP error, let > > alone log it with the full envelope information. That would make > > Postfix unnecessarily vulnerable to logfile flooding. > > maybe I expressed myself wrong. > I simply would like to see such a hypotetic log: > > Jul 8 17:46:08 mail postfix/smtp[14519]: 3mRP4H3mJMz373gD: reject: > END_OF_DATA from mail.external.org[192.0.2.25]: queue file size limit > exceeded; from=<external_sender>, to=<my_user@mydomain>, proto=ESMTP, > helo=<mail.external.org>
If the client looks at the SIZE line of the EHLO response, it may determine at that point that the message is too big and abort the attempt. In that case the server doesn't have any envelope data to log, and might not even know why the client gave up.
