https://issues.apache.org/SpamAssassin/show_bug.cgi?id=6195





--- Comment #4 from John Hardin <[email protected]>  2009-09-08 16:43:20 PST 
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(In reply to comment #3)
> (In reply to comment #2)
> > Actually, it's in response to a thread currently underway on the users list,
> > where the OP was lamenting that SA didn't log the first external IP address
> > (among other bits of the message).
> 
> That's an entirely different cattle of fish then. That user is missing the
> spamd logs where it does report all rules hit, the score, user and much more.
> About all he has are the prefork logs -- a user problem, SA does indeed log
> more.

I pointed that out to him, I don't know if he picked up on my comment.

> So the next stop is a simple, custom logging plugin. Easy to log what he asked
> for -- not sure if it also could log arbitrary rules' matches. Probably not,
> I'm afraid.

That's why I suggested a tflag rather than a plugin. It's more flexible.

> Anyway, he first needs to sort out his log issues. That's outside the scope of
> this enhancement request. As-is, this cannot possibly help him.

Agreed, but it did suggest the idea.

> > I was thinking such a tflag would be a more-general solution than playing
> > whack-a-mole with hardcoded lists of "what about the message do we want to
> > log?"
> 
> My interpretation sounds more like a promising reason to ever implement this.
> ;)

That, too. :)

> > Granted you could easily blow your foot off with it... :)
> 
> Definitely agreed. WRT this reason for the enhancement request, I'd be much
> more happy with some options to add logging lines or alter existing ones. And
> restrict its scope to the templates, rather than arbitrary RE matches.

But what about the Unix philosophy of "here's plenty of rope..."

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