Carlos E. R. wrote:
My normal action when I see a warning message is dispatch a bug,
Why on earth would you do that?
To remedy the situation, so that the programmer or packager knows about the error.
What error? We are talking about warnings, not errors. See what you wrote above.
Here are some warnings from one of our (openSUSE) mailservers:
2023-03-05T00:07:33.089097+00:00 anna postfix/qmgr[17957]: warning: mail for jessen.ch is using up 5838 of 20000 active queue entries
This is not the kind of log entries I complain about. This is a true and proper warning.
2023-03-11T08:23:34.455243+00:00 anna postfix/smtp[31360]: warning: TLS library problem: error:14094417:SSL routines:ssl3_read_bytes:sslv3 alert illegal parameter:ssl/record/rec_layer_s3.c:1544:SSL alert number 47:
This one you should report. Seems a programming error.
I'll leave it you to report this warning. It is just some arbitrary server offering deprecated ciphers not supported (by default) by the client.
2023-03-11T06:14:37.193691+00:00 anna postfix/smtp[8502]: warning: numeric domain name in resource data of MX record for jessen.ch:
This is a proper warning.
2023-03-11T02:17:55.283468+00:00 anna postfix/smtp[31379]: warning: no MX host for jessen.ch has a valid address record
This is a proper warning.
2023-03-11T01:29:42.339317+00:00 anna postfix/cleanup[23707]: warning: 5255D24040: message rejected: hopcount exceeded
This is a proper warning.
So you would report all of those? Wietse will be taken to hospital with laughter cramps. I am really struggling to understand why the xsane warning about missing data is any different to the postfix warning about missing data.
I don't know about your MUA but in mine (Claws) if I have a problem sending a message I go to the menus: Tools/Network Log and have a look at exactly what was sent over the wire. If necessary i restart the program from the command-line and increase logging further. No need to go to any system logs and no problem if they're missing.
Well, there is a difference: my MUAs hand over the email to postfix for sending. This was a necessity long ago, because I used Alpine as MUA. Now it is a preference.
What has that got to do with mail.{info,err,notice} ?
I needed to know what was going on with the mail I produced, see the possible problems and act on them. Ie, check the logs, either as routine, or in retrospect.
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