On 2014-08-19 16:46, Anton Aylward wrote:
On 08/19/2014 09:51 AM, Patrick Shanahan wrote:
I have postfix and by fetchmail handing to postfix I get *all* mail logged in /var/log/mail, ie: not just fetchmail's and procmail's logs.
It was a *conscious* decision :^).
Same here. And other reasons, like learning to use postfix, which I use for sending, too, and to add other things like amavis.
might contain. My POV is 'why keep logs unless you are inspecting them?'.
Because when there is a problem, and they come, eventually, I want to find out why, later. I also keep procmail logs... ...which are parsed by an application I wrote which then displays how many new posts I have, and on which folders. It doesn't waste any of my time to just "have logs". Just some disk space. -- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from 13.1 x86_64 "Bottle" at Telcontar)