headerless.drop

Discard headerless messages after optional logging.

This parameter applies to pmrfc3164: Parse RFC3164-formatted messages.

Name:

headerless.drop

Scope:

module

Type:

boolean

Default:

module=off

Required?:

no

Introduced:

8.2508.0

Description

When enabled, headerless messages are discarded after optional logging to headerless.errorfile and are not processed by later rules.

Module usage

parser(name="custom.rfc3164" type="pmrfc3164" headerless.drop="on")

Notes

• Legacy docs referred to this as a binary option, which maps to a boolean.

See also

See also pmrfc3164: Parse RFC3164-formatted messages.

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