dovecot - Nov 2007 - Questions about deliver log files

Hi,

I upgraded from Courier to dovecot, and now I try to rebuild some of
the features I used to have. One was a monthly per user log of
maildrop's work.

I used this code in maildroprc:

  DATE=`date +%m`
  logfile "$MAILDIR/maildrop-$DATE.log"

This created a monthly log in the each user's Maildir. I find it
easier to have a log per user than having to filter the log entries
from a large log file for all users.

I tried to recreate it with deliver by using the variables %h and
%d/%n, but they are not interpreted when the log file is accessed
("Can't open log file /var/vmail/%d/%n/deliver.log: No such file
or directory"). And there seems to be no way to include a date in
the file name (but maybe I could use logrotate for that).

Another problem:

Currently deliver only logs the message id. A user would never
ask for this (especially if he asks where certain mails were
stored/discarded), he would ask for the sender's name/email or
subject. Is the contents of the log file configurable?


Frank

On Sun, 2007-11-25 at 00:03 +0100, frank.kintrup at fkware.de
wrote:
> I tried to recreate it with deliver by using the variables %h and
> %d/%n, but they are not interpreted when the log file is accessed
> ("Can't open log file /var/vmail/%d/%n/deliver.log: No such file
> or directory"). And there seems to be no way to include a date in
> the file name (but maybe I could use logrotate for that).
v2.0 will have better support for these kind of things, but for now you
could use a dynamically generated config file. Before running deliver
you'd create a config for it using perl or whatever where the log_path
is set like you want it.
> Currently deliver only logs the message id. A user would never
> ask for this (especially if he asks where certain mails were
> stored/discarded), he would ask for the sender's name/email or
> subject. Is the contents of the log file configurable?
Unfortunately not. I added this to my TODO now. It wouldn't be difficult
to modify deliver's sources for this though.

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