postifx: do not log name and IP of server connection

hydraMax · 12-23-2013, 01:53 AM

Hi. I'm not quite clear from the online Postfix documentation, on how to do this: How do you set postfix so that it does not log the name, nor the IP, of the servers postfix connects to (sending or receiving). I do not want my server log to contain any information pertaining to whom it sent e-mails to or whom it received e-mails from.

If that meant disabling the whole logging process, I suppose that would be fine, though I would think it would still be useful to log some things, such as error messages.

zhjim · 12-23-2013, 02:19 AM

I did not find much in the documentation of postfix besides increasing log level. Using -v on the smtpd binary in master.cf. Maybe a -q would turn of logging. Also I did not find any options for the postfix/smtpd binary.

Nother approach would be to have your log server mangle the lines. Depending on which syslog your using. Heres something for rsyslog: http://www.rsyslog.com/doc/mmanon.html.