Knowledge base

send-bin-log verified

Binary delivery log

in the configuration this is a linesend-bin-log: /var/log/mailerq/send.bin

Compact machine-readable copy of the delivery log.

Values

Values
file path
Default
/var/log/mailerq/send.bin · taken from the build
applying
restart required
where it can be set
in the config file · with a startup flag · as an environment variable

In detail

Written alongside the text log in a compact form — 535 bytes on our stand where the text log held 2397 for the same events. The vendor's own tools read it; we have no reader for it, and the text log carries the same facts in a shape our collector already parses.