Michael Tokarev:
> Wietse Venema wrote:
> []
> > The TCP handshake (i.e. the client-to-kernel handshake) did complete,
> > but the client disconnected before Postfix accepted the connection
> > (the kernel-to-Postfix handshake). The kernel discarded the connection
> > information, and reported an error when Postfix asked for the client
> > IP address. Postfix ten reported the client as "unknown".
>
> I wonder if it's worth the effort to log the connection event in the
> first place... Just cluttering logs with useless information.
Postfix logs this and other information so that it will be easier
to trouble shoot the (mail) system, despite the possibility that
it allows bad people to flood the disk. Consider that it was written
only a few years after I wrote the TCP Wrapper.
Configurable logging has been on the todo list for about as long
as Postfix exists.
Wietse
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