Wietse Venema on Wed, 15 Jun 2016 13:32:21 -0400:

> What I have on my wish list for Postfix is to replace the ad-hoc
> logging API which is now approaching 20 years of age.

> - Top layer: structured logging API, probably based on (name, value)
>  pairs.  You can already see in the current ad-hoc implementation
>  that name=value is what I planned for from the beginning.

> - Bottom layer: drivers for syslog, record-over-FIFO, other outputs.

The policy service interface passes a lot of information using
name/value pairs. Could this mechanism be enabled for other
massage events such as bounce, deferral, etc? Or is it simpler
to make it an option for logging?

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