Michael Tokarev:
> > The Postfix logging is still first-generation code that needs to
> > be replaced by more configurable mechanisms. Changing it from one
> > hard-coded logging format to another hard-coded logging format is
> > only a waste of time, in my opinion.
>
> Configurable logs may be needed only to preserve compatibility. If
> postfix will log enouth and more-or-less easily parseable it will be
> sufficient. At the end, configurable log will break "standard"
> log-analisys tools or make them too complex.

With configurable I mean getting away from hard-coded format strings
in the middle of Postfix daemons. That means adding one abstraction
level and introducing the possibility of making the logging
format easier to change. I do not expect that people will be
changing settings, it is merely a programmer convenience.

        Wietse
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