From: Kevin Rodgers <ihs_4664@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: smtpmail.el and logging
Date: Fri, 01 Jul 2005 11:00:14 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <da3scn$835$1@sea.gmane.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87fyuy4ioe.fsf@wivenhoe.staff8.ul.ie>
Brendan Halpin wrote:
> I normally send mail directly from my machine using the MTA, and
> the access to the logs is handy from time to time.
>
> However, some of my correspondents are on sites which won't accept
> mail except from a machine with a valid MX record, which I don't
> have. Therefore I sometimes use smtpmail.el, but I miss the
> logging. Does smtpmail.el log at all? If so, how and where?
I don't understand why those sites would accept a direct SMTP connection
from your machine but not an SMTP connection via sendmail. In any case,
smtpmail logs each transaction in the *trace of SMTP session to foo*
buffer, where foo is smtpmail-smtp-server.
For example, I've been using this for years:
(defadvice smtpmail-send-it (around display-trace-buffer activate)
"If an error is signalled, display the process buffer."
(condition-case signals-data
ad-do-it
(error (shrink-window-if-larger-than-buffer
(display-buffer (get-buffer (format "*trace of SMTP session to %s*"
smtpmail-smtp-server))))
(signal (car signals-data) (cdr signals-data)))))
You should be able to advise smtpmail-send-it to append the contents of
the trace buffer to a log file:
(defvar smtpmail-log-file nil
"If non-nil, the name of the SMTP log file.")
(defadvice smtpmail-send-it (after smtpmail-log-file activate)
"If `smtpmail-log-file' is non-nil, append the contents of the trace
buffer."
(when smtpmail-log-file
(with-current-buffer (get-buffer
(format "*trace of SMTP session to %s*"
smtpmail-smtp-server))
(append-to-file (point-min) (point-max) smtpmail-log-file))))
--
Kevin Rodgers
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2005-07-01 16:04 smtpmail.el and logging Brendan Halpin
2005-07-01 17:00 ` Kevin Rodgers [this message]
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2005-07-02 15:38 ` Brendan Halpin
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