How to edit the message sent to maillog

ma...@dressel.co.uk

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Nov 22, 2016, 1:10:15 PM11/22/16

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Hi, I have read that I can add the 'To' email address to the message sent to the maillog file but for the life of me I cannot find out how to do this.

Can somebody please put me out of my misery and let me know how / where I edit the message format?

Thanks,
Mark

Claus Aßmann

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Nov 22, 2016, 1:50:03 PM11/22/16

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Mark wrote:
> Hi, I have read that I can add the 'To' email address to the message sent to the maillog

Where did you read it?

> file but for the life of me I cannot find out how to do this.

> Can somebody please put me out of my misery and let me know how / where I edit the message format?

In the source code...
Or you could use the syslog map, see doc/op/op.*

"What's the problem you are trying to solve?"

sendmail logs a to= entry:
uAM8pP94020964: to=<SOME...@sendmail.org>, delay=00:00:08, xdelay=00:00:02, mailer=esmtp, pri=44174, relay=...., stat=Sent

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ma...@dressel.co.uk

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Nov 22, 2016, 3:51:25 PM11/22/16

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Hi Claus,

I read about the options to add to the maillog message here;
http://docstore.mik.ua/orelly/networking/sendmail/ch26_01.htm#SML2-CH-26-TAB-3

The syslog man pages seem only to refer to managing the log files, not the messages sent to the files by the facilities.

The only op.* file I can find on my Centos VPS is /usr/lib64/perl5/CORE/op.h which seems to be for the setup of the Perl environment. :(

Claus Aßmann

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Nov 22, 2016, 8:10:04 PM11/22/16

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> I read about the options to add to the maillog message here;
> http://docstore.mik.ua/orelly/networking/sendmail/ch26_01.htm#SML2-CH-26-TAB-3

I don't see anything about "options to add"; that (illegal copy of the
Bat book?) only shows what is logged by sendmail.

> The only op.* file I can find on my Centos VPS is /usr/lib64/perl5/CORE/op.h which seems to
> be for the setup of the Perl environment. :(

Download the real thing from ftp.sendmail.org and access doc/op/op.*

I didn't see an answer to my question what you are trying to
achieve... (considering that sendmail logs to=).

ma...@dressel.co.uk

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Nov 23, 2016, 5:50:34 AM11/23/16

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Hi Claus,

> Download the real thing from ftp.sendmail.org and access doc/op/op.*
>

I have downloaded this :)

>
> I didn't see an answer to my question what you are trying to
> achieve... (considering that sendmail logs to=).

For some reason I am not getting the to= value in my log.

Unfortunately I have run out of time on this issue and will have to get back to it another day. Thanks for your help :)

Claus Aßmann

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Nov 23, 2016, 8:40:03 AM11/23/16

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> For some reason I am not getting the to= value in my log.

as root:
date | sendmail -v -Am $USER

then check the log. If to= isn't logged, check the queue.

Or try:
date | sendmail -v -Am -D/tmp/sm.log -d89.9 $USER
cat /tmp/sm.log