Re: SMTP Transaction logs?

9 msg	queue behavior
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SMTP Transaction logs?
\ Jeff McCombs (20 Jul 2007)
. \ (Wietse Venema) (20 Jul 2007)
. . \ Jeff McCombs (20 Jul 2007)
. . . \ Victor Duchovni (20 Jul 2007)
. . . . \ Jeff McCombs (21 Jul 2007)

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Subject:	Re: SMTP Transaction logs?
Group:	Postfix-users
From:	Jeff McCombs
Date:	21 Jul 2007

On 7/20/07 2:25 PM, "Victor Duchovni" <Victor.Duchovni>
wrote:

> On Fri, Jul 20, 2007 at 01:02:05PM -0500, Jeff McCombs wrote:
>
>> Now all this works fine for the most part. However we do get a lot of
>> complaints from some of our larger customers because we can't provide
>> additional information aside text from the Diagnostic-Code: pseudo
>> header in the DSN's 'Undelivered' section.
>
> Do you need this for both success and failure cases, or just failuer cases?
>
I'll take what I can get. Failure only is just fine.

>> So what I need is the ability
>> to pull the actual SMTP chat transcripts between the sending and
>> receiving mail server. Ideally there'd be a way to embed this into the
>> DSN, but that's not really what they are for and is probably just
>> wishful thinking on my part.
>>
>
> This would have to go into the human-readable body part of the DSN. This
> is generated by the bounce(8) daemon, not the SMTP delivery agent, so it
> it is not easy to get the session history there.
>
> For failures the SMTP delivery agent can generate postmaster notices...

Yeah I was thinking about that too. I'm going to try and see if there's
anything useful there.

>
> Nothing elegant/obvious comes to mind...