"Jordan Russell" <jr-list-postfixquo.to> writes:
> Maybe I'm missing something, but why can't Postfix just print the 8-bit
> characters verbatim when writing to syslog?

Information in logfiles is provided by an untrusted source. It
can be extremely dangerous. As a safety measure, Postfix logging
always maps non-printable non-ASCII characters to ?, and always
truncates text to a known length.

By allowing raw data to be logged, you can't even trust the line
boundaries in your logfile. Imagine if someone can insert newlines
(or even carriage returns) in your logfile, or lines that begin
with ~!command or other magic sequences that make xterms do weird
things, and so on. Logfiles are dangerous.

        Wietse
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