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Subject:	SMTP Transaction logs?
Group:	Postfix-users
From:	Jeff McCombs
Date:	20 Jul 2007

Gang,

Is there any easy way to have postfix log _just_ the SMTP
transactions (HELO, RCPT, DATA, etc) rather than all of the stuff that
smtpd -v pushes out? I'm trying to figure out a way to correlate a
message/DSN with a particular SMTP transaction, and it's looking like
it's going to be a real bear to do, as I can't be sure that a smtp PID
will always be unique over the course of a day.

I'm not liking my options on this one at the moment. Perhaps I'm
just not finding what I need. I did notice that there is mention of
smtp_chat_notify() function to send transaction logs postmaster in
smtp_chat.c, but I haven't been able to figure out how to activate it.

Note that I only care about matching DSNs to SMTP transactions
on _outbound_ messages. The system doesn't process inbound at all.

Anyone have any suggestions?

-Jeff

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