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Re: [PLUG] syslog-ng config question, to ignore entries in mail.log
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Never got an answer to this, so I thought I'd try again. Anyone know of a
way I can do this?
Mike Leone (turgon@mike-leone.com) had this to say on 01/10/07 at 12:53:
> At work i use a Postfix mail server, running on Debian testing, to screen my
> Exchange 2003 server. Postfix, in it's zeal to log everything, shows me all
> log entries for when it rejects mail for mis-addressed users. And I get
> 10-12K+ messages a day, from spammers/viruses/bots, all addressed to random
> addresses at my domain. Needless to say, this makes my mail logs huge and
> unweildy. I'd like to syslog-ng to just ignore them and not log these
> multitudes of entries. I've tried reading through the documentation for
> syslog-ng, and I'm still lost.
>
> Can anybody help?
>
> I want to not log these:
>
> Jan 9 08:02:28 cliff-claven postfix/smtpd[21035]: NOQUEUE: reject: RCPT
> from hst-141-208.union-net.net[85.239.141.208]: 554 5.7.1
> <viray@contributionship.com>: Recipient address rejected: Access denied;
> from=<gusmanxoa@barcenas.net> to=<viray@contributionship.com> proto=SMTP
> helo=<barcenas.net>
>
> AFAICT, there's no way to tell postfix not to log something. There are ways
> to tell it to ignore certain headers, or make decisions based on entries in
> the body of the message, but these log entries don't fall under that.
>
> I'd want to continue to log all other mail messages; just don't want to see
> all these "NOQUEUE: reject" messages. And since the mail.log is
> automatically mailed to my Windows account for review, I'd like to avoid
> logging them at all, as opposed to a solution which ignores them while
> reviewing on a Linux platform.
>
> If there's a better way to do that, I'd love to hear it.
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