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per_record

Allows configuring per-record type logging.

kumo.configure_local_logs {
  per_record = {
    Reception = {
      -- use names like "20230306-022811_recv" for reception logs
      suffix = '_recv',
    },

    Delivery = {
      -- put delivery logs in a different directory
      log_dir = '/var/log/kumo/delivery',
    },

    TransientFailure = {
      -- Don't log transient failures
      enable = false,
    },

    Bounce = {
      -- Instead of logging the json record, evaluate this
      -- template string and log the result.
      template = [[Bounce! id={{ id }}, from={{ sender }} code={{ response.code }} age={{ timestamp - created }}]],
    },

    -- For any record type not explicitly listed, apply these settings.
    -- This effectively turns off all other log records
    Any = {
      enable = false,
    },
  },
}

The keys of the per_record table must correspond to one of the record types listed below, or the special Any key which can be used to match any record type that was not explicitly listed. The values of the per_record table are LogRecordParams have the following fields and values:

  • suffix - a string to append to the generated segment file name. For example, suffix = '.csv' will generate names like 20230306-022811.csv.
  • log_dir - specify an alternative log directory for this type
  • enable - defaults to true. If you set it to false, records of this type will not be logged
  • segment_header - ((Since: Version 2023.11.28-b5252a41)) text that will be written out to each newly opened segment file. Useful for emitting eg: a CSV header line.
  • template - the template to use to format the log line. Continue reading below for more information.

The Mini Jinja templating engine, with some supplemental extensions, is used to evaluate logging templates. The syntax and extensions are documented here.

The JSON log record fields shown in the section below are assigned as template variables, so using {{ id }} in your log template will be substituted with the id field from the log record section below.

To reference headers in a template, note that the header name is transformed to lowercase as part of adding it to the headers object, so to access a header named X-FooBar you would use {{ headers['x-foobar'] }} in your template.

Since: Version 2023.11.28-b5252a41

The functionality described in this outlined box requires version 2023.11.28-b5252a41 of KumoMTA, or a more recent version.


You may now use log_record to reference the entire log record, which is useful if you want to replicate the default json representation of the log record for an individual record type.

You might wish to use something like the following:

per_record = {
    Feedback = {
        template = [[{{ log_record | tojson }}]]
    }
}