disabling lame server logging

Phil Mayers p.mayers at imperial.ac.uk
Tue Feb 26 15:04:54 UTC 2013


On 26/02/13 14:50, Robert Moskowitz wrote:

>> Yes. Note that you can enable this by default in the "options"
>> statement. This is all pretty well documented and easy to find in the
>> ARM...
>
> This is traffic I only want occationally!  I am trying to reduce the
> logging size to find new problems.

Fair enough.

Personally we leave query logging enabled constantly (to local files) as 
it can be useful to retroactively troubleshoot. But it's your choice - 
that's why it's configurable.

> I don't need my mailserver to constantly be asking my name server about,
> say, zen.spamhaus.org.

Maybe, maybe not. I gave my opinion ("it depends") earlier, no point in 
repeating it.



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