Re: [Fetchmail-users] how to log date/time in daemon mode?

[Gene H. <ghe...@sh...>]

On Saturday 29 September 2018 13:10:49 Juergen Edner wrote:

> Hi Gene,
>
> > I was subjected to a phishing attack yesterday and again today, and
> > it would have been a lot easier to correlate the messages if
> > fetchmail was logging the time, preferably the date/time at the end
> > of fetching of fetching each mail. Something it is not now, and
> > never has done.  And I just reread the man pages without finding a
> > clue.
> >
> > How do I enable this so a date/time exists in the fetchmail.log?
>
> I'm using the following two commands to log the start and end of
> request cyle:
>
> preconnect  "echo 'fetchmail: awakened at '`date +'%a, %d %b %G
> %H:%M:%S (%Z)'`"
>
> postconnect "echo 'fetchmail: sleeping at '`date +'%a, %d %b %G
> %H:%M:%S (%Z)'` for xxx seconds
>
THis would triple the size of the log in terms of line count. What I 
would really like to do is convert the single log line:

fetchmail: reading message ghe...@sh...@pop.shentel.net:1 of 1 
(8044 octets) flushed

to:

fetchmail: reading message ghe...@sh...@pop.shentel.net:1 of 1 
(8044 octets) flushed 09/27/18 14;51.28

Against this server, flush doesn't work as its a dovecot intended as an 
imap server, but accessed by pop3, so the del command is ignored until I 
log in with firefox, then I can delete the contents, but fetchmail 
can't.

> Further details can be found here:
>
> http://www.fetchmail.info/fetchmail-man.html

containing virtually zero about action timestamps.

Perhaps this should be turned into a wishlist for the next release of 
fetchmail?

Procmail, which I use as the MTA/MDA does this nicely. And doing it in 
both, I can get a better idea of how much time it takes procmail to run 
everything thru all the filters.

Thanks.

> Regards
> Juergen



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