[Syslog-ng-maintainers] Bug#1117201: syslog-ng-core: Missing syslog-ng-mod-smtp

[Cédric Dufour]

Package: syslog-ng-core
Version: 4.8.1-5
Severity: normal

Dear Maintainer,

In order to support SMTP as a destination, one needs the SMTP Syslog NG driver, aka "syslog-ng-mod-smtp".

I see support for SMTP has been disabled on Ausgust 18, 2024: "Disable SMTP destination plugin for now".
Do you have any particular reason for not having re-enabled it since then (and included it in Trixie) ?

I have personally successfully re-enabled this support using the Debian Trixie source:
- in debian/control: add libesmtp-dev in Build-Depends
- in debian/control: uncomment the "syslog-ng-mod-smtp" package entry
- in debian/rules: replace --disable-smtp by --enable-smtp

I installed the resulting custom-built packages (including syslog-ng-mod-smtp 4.8.1-5+1custom13u1, as you
can see below) and confirmed the SMTP module/driver _does_ work.

Would you consider re-enabling it for future releases ?

Thanks and best,

Cédric


-- System Information:
Debian Release: 13.1
  APT prefers stable-updates
  APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable-security'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 6.1.153-kvm-amd64 (SMP w/1 CPU thread)
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE not set
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)

Versions of packages syslog-ng-core depends on:
ii  libc6                      2.41-12
ii  libcap2                    1:2.75-10+b1
ii  libglib2.0-0t64            2.84.4-3~deb13u1
ii  libivykis0t64              0.43.2-1+b1
ii  libjson-c5                 0.18+ds-1
ii  libnet1                    1.3+dfsg-2
ii  libpcre2-8-0               10.46-1~deb13u1
ii  libssl3t64                 3.5.1-1+deb13u1
ii  libsystemd0                257.8-1~deb13u2
ii  libwrap0                   7.6.q-36
ii  lsb-base                   11.6
ii  sysvinit-utils [lsb-base]  3.14-4

Versions of packages syslog-ng-core recommends:
ii  logrotate  3.22.0-1

Versions of packages syslog-ng-core suggests:
pn  syslog-ng-mod-add-contextual-data  <none>
pn  syslog-ng-mod-amqp                 <none>
pn  syslog-ng-mod-examples             <none>
pn  syslog-ng-mod-geoip2               <none>
pn  syslog-ng-mod-graphite             <none>
pn  syslog-ng-mod-http                 <none>
pn  syslog-ng-mod-mongodb              <none>
pn  syslog-ng-mod-python               <none>
pn  syslog-ng-mod-rdkafka              <none>
pn  syslog-ng-mod-redis                <none>
pn  syslog-ng-mod-riemann              <none>
pn  syslog-ng-mod-slog                 <none>
ii  syslog-ng-mod-smtp                 4.8.1-5+1custom13u1
pn  syslog-ng-mod-snmp                 <none>
pn  syslog-ng-mod-sql                  <none>
pn  syslog-ng-mod-stardate             <none>
pn  syslog-ng-mod-stomp                <none>
pn  syslog-ng-mod-xml-parser           <none>

-- Configuration Files:
/etc/syslog-ng/syslog-ng.conf changed [not included]

-- no debconf information