NMS2DLF.IN(1)

📦 version 2.1.1, in arch rolling

💖 nms2dlf — Netscape Messaging Server SMTP logs to the email DLF 💖

okay so bestie, welcome to the manual page for nms2dlf, aka NMS2DLF.IN(1) from LogReport's Lire Documentation. It's giving "small converter, big main character energy" — this one takes Netscape Messaging Server SMTP log files and turns them into the email DLF. No cap. ✨

🌈 NAME 🌈

nms2dlf — convert Netscape Messaging Server SMTP log files to the email DLF.

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

nms2dlf STDIN STDOUT

That's the whole vibe: STDIN goes in, STDOUT comes out. 🎀

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

This program converts a Netscape Messaging Server log file generated by the SMTP service to the email DLF. Literally its whole job. 💅

To process correctly the log file, you need to turn on logging of the following modules:

  • SMTP-Accept
  • SMTP-Deliver
  • Error-Handler
  • Mailbox-Deliver (Need to be enabled)

Do not skip the module list, bestie — it's important. 🫶

💅 LIMITATIONS 💅

This DLF converter was developed for the Netscape Messaging Server version 4.1. Other versions may or may not work. If you have problems with that converter, contact the LogReport developers. Ngl, version stuff is always a little "iykyk". 😭

You can find information about the log format used by Netscape Messaging Server at the following URL:

http://developer.netscape.com/docs/manuals/messaging/41/ag/logging.htm

Not all messages are documented. And we found errors in the documentation. The fields msgID and mailFrom are inversed in both SMTP-Accept and SMTP-Deliver from what the documentation described. Yes, that's a real oops. 💀

🎀 CONFIGURING LOGGING OF MAILBOX-DELIVER MODULE 🎀

We found that there are no logs from the Mailbox-Delivery module by default. In order to fix that problem, please make sure you do the following:

  1. Go on the Netscape Messaging Server 4 MTA or Message Store.
  2. Become the Mail Server user (usually this should not be root but typically a user like mailsrv or whatever was defined at installation time; check for the ownership of the files in your message server instance, for example).
  3. Go to the right location, something like: server-root/msg-instance

For example it could be: /usr/netscape/server4/msg-mymailserver

  1. Do:
$ ./configutil -o service.smtp.mailbox-deliver.log -v yes
OK SET
  1. Then become root, go again to your instance directory like: /usr/netscape/server4/msg-mymailserver and do:
# ./stop-msg smtp
/usr/netscape/server4: Stopping SMTP daemon 16279 .... done: 16279

# ./start-msg smtp
/usr/netscape/server4: Starting SMTP daemon ..... done: 10820

And then you will start seeing lines which will look like the following:

[19/Jul/2002:08:31:54 +0200] amail2 smtpd[10820]: \
General Notice: SMTP-Accept:GZHGT501.C01:<200207190632.g6J6W7Y01389@\
esmtp.orangemail.ch>:[192.168.30.2]:192.168.30.2: \
<newsletter@gamezone.com>:19514:1:<hmarmy@orangemail.ch>
[19/Jul/2002:08:31:54 +0200] amail2 smtpd[10820]: General Notice: \
Mailbox-Deliver:GZHGT501.C01:<200207190632.g6J6W7Y01389@\
esmtp.orangemail.ch>:19516:1:hmarmy;
If this was not done, the line with the pattern Mailbox-Deliver above will not be present and the program will give wrong results. A warning will be output in the error log. 🚨

🍓 EXAMPLES 🍓

To process a log as produced by Netscape Messaging Server:

$ nms2dlf < mail.log

nms2dlf will be rarely used on its own, but is more likely called by lr_log2report:

$ lr_log2report nms < /var/log/mail.log

See? Lowkey simple, highkey useful. 💜

🔥 VERSION 🔥

$Id: nms2dlf.in,v 1.10 2006/07/23 13:16:34 vanbaal Exp $

Copyright (C) 2002 Stichting LogReport Foundation <logreport@LogReport.org> Copyright (C) 2002 Arnaud Taddei Copyright (C) 2002 Arnaud Gaillard

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program (see COPYING); if not, check with http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html.

Legal text bestie, but make it iconic. 📜✨

🫶 AUTHORS 🫶

Francis J. Lacoste <flacoste@logreport.org>, Arnaud Taddei <Arnaud.Taddei@sun.com> and Arnaud Gaillard <wireless@orange.ch>.

okay bye bestie, that's the NMS2DLF.IN(1) page from Lire 2.1.1, dated 2025-09-28 — mwah, slay, and may all your logs be parsed correctly 💋✨

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