qmail and logs

[M.A.]

I'm using qmail in a server at the university for three months now. I'm very happy with its performance, but not as happy with those logs. Is there anyway to tell qmail to log with a human-readable timestamp?
Also, mail delivered to users is usually delivered to their local maildir and relayed to a external mail account (that of their ISP, etc), because we cannot provide POP or IMAP service. But if they want to read the mail of their local maildir with a console based MUA, which is the best for working with maildirs? I have installed pine-maildir, but I haven't figured yet how to use it with the qmail .maildir directory.
Thanks in advance.

[TimoTye]

There is a tool called tailocal (that's tai -- local not tail -- ocal)

I use it like this

cat qmail.log | tailocal | vi -

The reason it is logging this way is that people in different timezones may be looking at the logs. This way everyone can see the logs in their local time. Slight overkill in your situation I'm sure.

You may also be able to set qmail to log timestamps locally but I'm not sure how to do that.

[Rroet]

do you have an url on that ?
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[TimoTye]

tailocal is part of the daemontools package. If you set up qmail to use tcpserver instead of inetd than tailocal should already be installed.