Bug#712987: exim4: Include port number in error messages

Marc Haber mh+debian-packages at zugschlus.de
Wed Jun 26 10:58:32 UTC 2013


tags #712987 upstream
thanks

On Fri, Jun 21, 2013 at 04:38:23PM +0200, Olaf van der Spek wrote:
> Could you include port numbers in error messages?
> I accidently used a single colon instead of a double colon and had to run tcpdump to find out what went wrong.

That's a valid point, but I don't think that we should locally patch
exim to do this. Would you be willing to file an upstream bug for
this, so that we do not unilaterally break the well-known log format?

Greetings
Marc

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