Debian bug report logs - #1481 smail paniclog suggestion Package: smail ; Reported by: Ian Jackson ; 35 days old . ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Message received at debian-bugs: From cus.cam.ac.uk!iwj10 Tue Sep 26 05:14:30 1995 Return-Path: Received: from pixar.com by mongo.pixar.com with smtp (Smail3.1.28.1 #15) id m0sxYu5-000GYrC; Tue, 26 Sep 95 05:14 PDT Received: from bootes.cus.cam.ac.uk by pixar.com with SMTP id AA14933 (5.67b/IDA-1.5 for debian-bugs-pipe@mongo.pixar.com); Tue, 26 Sep 1995 05:14:08 -0700 Received: by bootes.cus.cam.ac.uk (Smail-3.1.29.0 #36) id m0sxYVf-000C0ZC; Tue, 26 Sep 95 12:49 BST Received: by chiark id (Debian /\oo/\ Smail3.1.29.1 #29.33); Tue, 26 Sep 95 11:36 BST Message-Id: Date: Tue, 26 Sep 95 11:36 BST From: Ian Jackson To: debian-bugs@pixar.com X-Debian-Pr: quiet Subject: Re: smail paniclog suggestion Package: smail Version: 3.1.29.1 Bernd S. Brentrup writes ("smail paniclog suggestion"): > I'm not sure whether to report this as a bug > > bora:~$ dpkg --status smail | egrep 'Package|Version|Revision|Maintainer' > Package: smail > Maintainer: Ian Jackson > Version: 3.1.29.1 > Revision: 13 > > After recovering from a hardware failure while fetching mail from my pop3 > server, I had a hard time to figure out that popclient probably did not > delete the failed message, I have no proof though. > > When logging a serious error in paniclog, smail uses its internally generated > message id for identification, this id doesn't occur anywhere else, so it was > completely useless in this situation. > > Including the orig-id - which is listed for successfully received messages in > logfile - would make it a lot easier to check whether mail has been lost. > > I'm no smail guru and don't have enough time to look into the smail docs now. > As a workaround I'll setup procmail on my upstream account to log incoming > message ids, no need for cooperation from the postmaster. > > Greetings > -- Siggy > ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Acknowledgement sent to Ian Jackson : New bug report received and filed, but not forwarded. Full text available. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Ian Jackson / iwj10@thor.cam.ac.uk , with the debian-bugs tracking mechanism This page last modified 07:43:01 GMT Wed 01 Nov