On Sat, 2010-02-20 at 14:30 -0500, Victor Duchovni wrote: > On Sat, Feb 20, 2010 at 03:43:25PM +0530, ram wrote: > > > One of our clients sends contract notes to their customers and they > > require to store all logs of deliveries/bounces by some law. > > > > They have requirements like > > > > * The log should contain the full date including year > > * The log line should indicate full info --> > > sender,rcpt,datetime,size,status > > > > I have managed to add custom logs in postfix source in bounce.c and > > sent.c. (Thanks to the neatly structured code it wasnt much of an > > effort) > > > > > > Only problem is when a message expires there is no log line that says > > $queue-id: "$sender" to "$rcpt" status=expired > > > > How can I log this ? > > Collate the logs by message-id. What expired is the message, therefore, > all recipients not yet delivered are expired. > But when a message expires , the recipient not delivered is not logged at all.( Except for in status=deferred lines much much before the expiry ) Collating lines from different places in the logfile calls for some parsing. The parser may in itself be very trivial but I have to educate the client to read "collated" :-(
> If the client uses a decently written bounce-bot, they can parse any > bounces and extract the undelivered recipients. > Perfect. We are already doing bounce handling at the bounce box. The real requirement here is just cosmetic: "We need logs of every single mail with *exact* status for 7 years"
