Maillog: waisted bytes?

V P list307 at gmail.com
Sat Oct 29 07:09:02 UTC 2005


On 29/10/05, Andy Pieters <mailings at vlaamse-kern.com> wrote:
> I have been wondering for what purpose the maillog is sent to me on a daily
> bases.
> Basically I get 10mb of this
<snip>
> So what's the point of that?

The point becomes clear when you work in a large organisation and some
VP or the likes send a mail that doen't get through and wants somebody
to hang for it. The mail log helps to find out what exactly happened
so that techs like us have somebody/something to point a finger at.

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