(LIRE) email DLF format redesign?

[Joost van Baal]

Hi Konstantinos Koukopoulos,

On Thu, Mar 10, 2005 at 09:14:47PM +0200, Konstantinos Koukopoulos wrote:
> 
> I have read in some old archived posts to this list that a redesign of the 
> email DLF format is being considered.
<snip>
> what is the status of this proposed change

No start has been made yet.

> what are the technical problems that need to be solved for this to happen? 

I believe the biggest challenge is to define a DLF format which works
for most known email logfiles.  That's actually more a design than an
implementation problem.  Once the DLF format is there, the email DLF
convertors would need to get adjusted:
/etc/lire/plugins/{postfix,sendmail,exim,qmail}_init and
/usr/share/perl5/Lire/Email/{Postfix,Sendmail,Exim,Qmail}DlfConverter.pm
.  (Beware: none of the email convertors use the new Perl module based
plugin mechanism yet.  Therefore, you'll find
{postfix,sendmail,exim,qmail}2dlf; not the files mentioned.

Furthermore, the report specifications in /usr/share/lire/reports/email
would probably need adjustments.

IIRC some of the things needed were mentioned in the earlier posts too.

Of course, there could be a migration path where just one convertor is
migrated first.  Call the new email DLF format(s) "email2" or something
like that.

> Partly, my reason for asking is because, if the changes are feasible and make 
> sense for the Lire project,

They surely make sense!  The current email 2dlf convertors are much too
complicated.  Once a new DLF implementation is there, it'd be much
easier to add another email logfile format.

> we would consider contributing our efforts 
> towards this end.

That'd be really great!

Bye,

Joost

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