Hi On Tue, 07 Oct 2008 14:30:48 +0200, Michael Haardt wrote: > Are there any non-political opinions against committing this patch?
Unfortunately separating the political and technical at this point is quite difficult, in my opinion, which I'll explain below. On Fri, 2008-10-10 at 09:36 +0200, Christof Meerwald wrote: > Personally, I would think that exim should be able to cope with these kind > of things, but I would prefer to have a generic solution. Exim can already log far more data than it does by default - the log_selector config option allows for a bundle of information: http://www.exim.org/exim-html-current/doc/html/spec_html/ch49.html#SECTlogselector Given that each member state of the EU can modify the Directive 2006/24/EC to fit their own ends (which in fact the UK govt has done) it's my belief that providing a fixed format which "fits" is not the job of the application, but the job of the sysadmin running the application. In the case of Exim it seems that according to Article 5 of the directive, the requirements are already fulfilled by the default log format - this logs: sending and destination IP sending envelope email address all recipients, whether to/cc/bcc or envelope time authentication details if applicable protocols used I personally do not believe that patching Exim to fulfil the directive fully is necessary; more pertinently I don't believe it's possible given the myriad different local interpretations and transpositions applied by EU member states. On top of that, putting code in like this may actually breach regulations in other parts of the world (IANAL though). My reading of the Directive and several interpretation documents leads me to believe that there is no one format which is necessary, as long as it's possible to post-process the retained data to locate the information - which in our case, exigrep is very good at. I hope others will offer their opinions also, either way. Anyone of a legal bent might be a useful addition to the thread! Graeme -- ## List details at http://lists.exim.org/mailman/listinfo/exim-dev Exim details at http://www.exim.org/ ##
