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Section: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Kiwi Enterprises\Syslogd\Properties

Value (STRING): MailAdditionalBodyText

Default value:   Blank
Type:      Text string


Additional text message to add to the e-mail body:

This setting specifies an additional line of text that can be included in the daily statistics and alarm e-mails. If you are receiving daily statistics or alarm e-mails from many syslog daemons, it can be useful to include a way of identifying which syslog daemon the e-mail came from.

Simply add a line of text that best describes the name or location of the syslog daemon. The text will be added to the beginning of the e-mail body.

For example:

A normal statistics e-mail looks like this:

///       Kiwi Syslog Daemon Statistics         ///
---------------------------------------------------
24 hour period ending on: Fri, 06 Feb 2004 13:04:55 +1300
Syslog Daemon started on: Fri, 06 Feb 2004 13:03:54
Syslog Daemon uptime:     24 hours, 0 minutes
---------------------------------------------------

+ Messages received - Total:          20000
+ Messages received - Last 24 hours:  20000

If you set the MailAdditionalBodyText setting to "London - Firewall Monitoring Syslog Daemon", the daily statistics e-mail will look like this:


London - Firewall Monitoring Syslog Daemon

///       Kiwi Syslog Daemon Statistics         ///
---------------------------------------------------
24 hour period ending on: Fri, 06 Feb 2004 13:04:55 +1300
Syslog Daemon started on: Fri, 06 Feb 2004 13:03:54
Syslog Daemon uptime:     24 hours, 0 minutes
---------------------------------------------------

+ Messages received - Total:          20000
+ Messages received - Last 24 hours:  20000


An additional CRLF is added before and after the text for better visibility.

See also. E-mail additional subject text