Re: Logging oddity: no "qmgr removed" issued on body/header rejections

[David Landgren <david@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Wietse Venema wrote:

[...]
> > It's through this line that you're able to determine when an SMTP 
> > transaction has been finished, which lets you get on with the job. 
> > Without that it's just messy heuristics.
>
> This is inaccurate. This line indicates that Postfix has completed
> mail DELIVERY. It has nothing to do with SMTP. It also says nothing
> about RECEIVING mail.
Yes, I understand that, I meant the overall transaction, i.e., when I 
see that line I know I can report on what was sent (or not) to the 
recipients of the message.
I made several attempts at trying to get this right with logs produced 
by previous versions of Postfix, but it required more effort than I was 
willing to spend on it to get all the edge cases. The "removed" message 
simplifies things considerably.
[...]

> > If I grep for '0A0782A496' that's the last line I get.
>
> You never have any guarantee whatsoever that the queue manager will
> always log the "deleted" record. A robust logfile processor must
> be able to deal with the absence of such a record.
Ok, thanks for the clarification.

David