[syslog-ng] [PATCH]: Experimental SMTP destination

[Alexander Clouter]

Gergely Nagy <algernon at balabit.hu> wrote:
>
> [snipped sendmail approach]
> 
> Yes, that's a possibility, indeed, but that assumes one has a sendmail
> command installed.
> 
For those crazy enough to run syslog-ng on a non-sendmail environment, 
there are alternatives:

http://glob.com.au/sendmail/

> * Tighter integration with syslog-ng allows for easier troubleshooting:
> 	one only has to look at one place
>
It does not answer "where did my email alert go?"  Did syslog eat it?  
Did the smarthost toast it?  Was it lost further upstream?

> * Safer: If $MSG happens to be multi-line, and one manages to craft a
> message with an embedded "\r\n.\r\n", we're in trouble. Similar things
> could be done to the headers aswell. Of course, that can be guarded
> against, but then the program destination becomes considerably
> different, and one would need a wrapper program. Or escaping template
> functions (which would be useful, if we don't have any yet..)
> 
No need to guard against it, add support into syslog-ng to send EOF at 
the end of each message and you use that as your magic marker instead.

> That, and having the option to do it without an external program was one
> of the driving forces behind the code (I really, really don't like
> calling external programs, if I can avoid it).
> 
Probably time to stop using UNIX :P

Cheers

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Alexander Clouter
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