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* Milter "time command".G.W. Haywood
`* Re: Milter "time command".Claus Aßmann
 `* Re: Milter "time command".G.W. Haywood
  `* Re: Milter "time command".Claus Aßmann
   `- Re: Milter "time command".G.W. Haywood

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Milter "time command".

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From: com.mail.sendmail@jubileegroup.co.uk (G.W. Haywood)
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Subject: Milter "time command".
Date: Sun, 24 Oct 2021 13:43:27 +0100
Organization: Aioe.org NNTP Server
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 by: G.W. Haywood - Sun, 24 Oct 2021 12:43 UTC

A little over 20 years ago (8th September 2001, the release of 8.12.0)
amongst other things some logging was added to .../sendmail/milter.c:

+ if (MilterLogLevel > 21)
+ tn = curtime();
+ response = milter_send_command(m, command, data ... );
+ + if (MilterLogLevel > 21)
+ {
+ /* log the time it took for the command per filter */
+ sm_syslog(LOG_INFO, e->e_id,
+ "Milter (%s): time command (%c), %d",
+ m->mf_name, command, (int) (tn - curtime()));

The intention appears to be to log the duration of a milter call.

The code in this area in version 8.17.1 is almost unchanged.

There are two problems with it.

1. If the time logged is non-zero, it will be negative.

2. In the last 20 years things have moved on a little, and an integer
seconds value isn't as useful as it might once have been. Less than
20% of the values in my logs are negative, the remainder being zero.

At first I wondered if a patch might break things for people, but now
I reason that if nobody has worried about this for two decades, then
that probably won't be a widespread issue.

Would a patch to address the precision of the result - microseconds
might be more appropriate - and its sign be welcomed? Perhaps the
version with greater precision should be FFR.

73,
Ged.

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Subject: Re: Milter "time command".
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 by: Claus Aßmann - Tue, 26 Oct 2021 07:19 UTC

G.W. Haywood wrote:

> Would a patch to address the precision of the result - microseconds
> might be more appropriate - and its sign be welcomed?

You could just send a patch to the support address and ask.

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Re: Milter "time command".

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From: comp.mail.sendmail@jubileegroup.co.uk (G.W. Haywood)
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Subject: Re: Milter "time command".
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 by: G.W. Haywood - Tue, 26 Oct 2021 14:56 UTC

On Tue, 26 Oct 2021, Claus Assmann wrote:

> G.W. Haywood wrote:
>
>> Would a patch to address the precision of the result - microseconds
>> might be more appropriate - and its sign be welcomed?
>
> You could just send a patch to the support address and ask.

Done.

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 by: Claus Aßmann - Tue, 26 Oct 2021 16:24 UTC

G.W. Haywood wrote:
> On Tue, 26 Oct 2021, Claus Assmann wrote:

> > You could just send a patch to the support address and ask.

> Done.

rcpt=<support-2021@support.sendmail.org>,status=550 5.1.1 Recipient rejected.

Didn't you get an error from your MUA or MTA?

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Re: Milter "time command".

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From: comp.mail.sendmail@jubileegroup.co.uk (G.W. Haywood)
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Subject: Re: Milter "time command".
Date: Fri, 29 Oct 2021 12:21:20 +0100
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 by: G.W. Haywood - Fri, 29 Oct 2021 11:21 UTC

On Tue, 26 Oct 2021, Claus Assmann wrote:

> G.W. Haywood wrote:
> > On Tue, 26 Oct 2021, Claus Assmann wrote:
>
> > > You could just send a patch to the support address and ask.
>
> > Done.
>
> rcpt=<support-2021@support.sendmail.org>,status=550 5.1.1 Recipient rejected.
>
> Didn't you get an error from your MUA or MTA?

Yes, but I didn't have time to jump through any more hoops just yet.

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