The lines came out as one block of preformatted text, which is what the
system log page does with a tail of mail.log — right there, where the
lines are unrelated to each other and the block is the log itself. Here
they are one message's six or seven lines, and what is read off them is
the pace: the second between the connection and the banner, the ten
between DATA and the reply. Run together, every line began with a
different-width stamp and none of those numbers lined up.
So they are two columns now, when and what, the same shape the send log
itself has. logtail.SplitTimestamp takes the stamp off the head of a
line: postlogd's format, which is what this server writes, and syslog's
traditional one for a deployment that routes the log through syslogd
instead. The stamp loses its microseconds and its offset — five decimal
places are the widest part of the column and the least worth reading —
but is not converted, so the page shows the log's own wall clock rather
than a claim about which zone it was in.
A line whose head is not a stamp either parser recognises keeps its whole
text in the second column and leaves the first empty. The format is the
log's, not ours; a line we cannot split is a line we must not drop, and
the test says so.
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The delivery page was a list of the fields the send-log table has no
column for, stacked one per line down the reading measure. Six values of
a few characters each — domain, application, queue id, journal id and two
timestamps — came to a page of mostly empty rows, and none of them
answered the question the log raises when a row is opened: what actually
happened to this message.
So the page states that instead. The subject heads it and the sender,
recipient and outcome are the line under it, which puts what the message
was and how it ended on the first line. Below, two columns: what the
journal recorded on the left, as a grid of tiles rather than a stack, and
on the right the two timestamps stated as the steps they stand for —
accepted and queued, then delivered, deferred, bounced, or refused before
queueing. Each step carries its status in the panel's own
ok/warn/error/unknown vocabulary, so a colour means here what it means on
the status page. A message still queued shows the report it is waiting
for as a step that has not happened, rather than dating it with the
moment the row was written.
Under both, at full width, the mail.log lines for the message's queue id.
The queue id was printed on this page as something to go and search the
system log for by hand; logtail.QueueLines does that search. It scans a
bounded tail of the current file — finding one message's lines means
reading rather than seeking — and anchors the match on the character
before the id, since queue ids are hexadecimal runs and a shorter one is
regularly the tail of a longer one. Send-log rows outlive mail.log
(retention ninety days, rotation fourteen files), so a message with
nothing left to show says so; that is the normal end state, not a fault,
and only a log that cannot be read at all is reported as one.
Two cards abreast and a block of raw log lines do not fit the reading
measure, so the page now declares itself wide — the opposite of what it
did when the column width was unified, where it was the page that stayed
prose. The mechanism is unchanged and is why the reversal costs one line:
how wide a page needs to be is the page's own property, not the
navigation entry's.
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The delivery log now lists what identifies a message and nothing else —
time, sender, recipient, subject, status — and links each row to
/deliveries/{id}, which carries the rest: the sending domain, the
application it was submitted under, the Postfix queue id to search the
system log for, and when the status was last reported. Domain and
application were a column each; they were the widest thing in the table
after the addresses and repeat down every filtered page, and they remain
the log's two filters. Back returns to the page and filters the row was
opened from, rebuilt from the log's own parameters only.
Subjects are now decoded for display as well as on the way in. The milter
has decoded them since 8add005, but the rows it wrote before that still
hold the raw =?utf-8?Q?...?= header, and those are the ones an operator is
most likely to still be reading. The decoder moves to internal/mailhdr,
shared by the milter and the panel; it is idempotent, so a row decoded
once passes through unchanged.
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Replaces copytruncate with rename + `postfix reload` (the same mechanism
`postfix logrotate` itself uses), closing the up-to-one-second window where
copytruncate could drop in-flight delivery lines and leave a send-log row
stuck at "queued" forever.
logrotate-mail.conf keeps `create 0644 root root` rather than `nocreate` as
originally planned: verified on a live container that Postfix recreates the
file itself only lazily, on the next write after reload, and at mode 0600 —
unreadable by the unprivileged panel process. `create` hands the file back at
0644 immediately after rename, before Postfix ever touches it.
logtail.follow() re-drains the old file descriptor once more right before
switching to the rotated file, closing the residual gap between the last
poll's drain and the rotation check. readLogTail() treats a momentarily
missing mail.log as an empty screen rather than a logged error.
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