NAME
nms2dlf - convert Netscape Messaging Server SMTP log files to the email
DLF
SYNOPSIS
nms2dlf STDIN STDOUT
DESCRIPTION
This program converts Netscape Messaging Server log file generated by
the SMTP service to the email DLF.
To process correctly the log file, you need to turn on logging of the
following modules:
- SMTP-Accept
- SMTP-Deliver
- Error-Handler
- Mailbox-Deliver (Need to be enabled)
LIMITATIONS
This DLF converter was developed for the Netscape Messaging Server
version 4.1. Other versions may or may not work. Contact the LogReport
developers if you have problems with that converter.
You can find information about the log format used by Netscape
Messaging Server at the following URL:
http://developer.netscape.com/docs/manuals/messaging/41/ag/logging.htm
Not all messages are documented. And we found errors in the
documentation. The fields msgID and mailFrom are inversed in both SMTP-
Accept and SMTP-Deliver from what described the documentation.
CONFIGURING LOGGING OF MAILBOX-DELIVER MODULE
We found that there are no logs from the Mailbox-Delivery module by
default. In order to fix that problem please make sure you do the
following:
1. Go on the Netscape Messaging Server 4 MTA or Message Store
2. Become the Mail Server user (usually this should not be root but
typically a user like mailsrv or whatever was defined at
installation time, check for the ownership of the files in your
message server instance for example)
3. Go to the right location, something like: server-root/msg-instance
For example it could be: /usr/netscape/server4/msg-mymailserver
4. Do:
$ ./configutil -o service.smtp.mailbox-deliver.log -v yes
OK SET
5. Then become root, go again to your instance directory like:
/usr/netscape/server4/msg-mymailserver and do:
# ./stop-msg smtp
/usr/netscape/server4: Stopping SMTP daemon 16279 .... done: 16279
# ./start-msg smtp
/usr/netscape/server4: Starting SMTP daemon ..... done: 10820
And then you will start seeing lines which will look like the
following:
[19/Jul/2002:08:31:54 +0200] amail2 smtpd[10820]: \
General Notice: SMTP-Accept:GZHGT501.C01:<200207190632.g6J6W7Y01389@\
esmtp.orangemail.ch>:[192.168.30.2]:192.168.30.2: \
<newsletter@gamezone.com>:19514:1:<hmarmy@orangemail.ch>
[19/Jul/2002:08:31:54 +0200] amail2 smtpd[10820]: General Notice: \
Mailbox-Deliver:GZHGT501.C01:<200207190632.g6J6W7Y01389@\
esmtp.orangemail.ch>:19516:1:hmarmy;
If this was not done the line with the pattern Mailbox-Deliver above
will not be present and the program will give wrong results. A warning
will be output in the error log.
EXAMPLES
To process a log as produced by Netscape Messaging Server
$ nms2dlf < mail.log
nms2dlf will be rarely used on its own, but is more likely called by
lr_log2report:
$ lr_log2report nms < /var/log/mail.log
VERSION
$Id: nms2dlf.in,v 1.10 2006/07/23 13:16:34 vanbaal Exp $
COPYRIGHT
Copyright (C) 2002 Stichting LogReport Foundation
<logreport@LogReport.org> Copyright (C) 2002 Arnaud Taddei Copyright
(C) 2002 Arnaud Gaillard
This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the
Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your
option) any later version.
This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but
WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU
General Public License for more details.
You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along
with this program (see COPYING); if not, check with
http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html.
AUTHORS
Francis J. Lacoste <flacoste@logreport.org>, Arnaud Taddei
<Arnaud.Taddei@sun.com> and Arnaud Gaillard <wireless@orange.ch>