diff --git a/docs/courier-to-mailman3.md b/docs/courier-to-mailman3.md
index f1859d3..e758ec8 100644
--- a/docs/courier-to-mailman3.md
+++ b/docs/courier-to-mailman3.md
@@ -19,4 +19,9 @@ This is our current version trying to communicate between courier and mailman3.
   * This is not working
 * Reverting to previous formatting
 * No idea what steps we've gone through to get here.
-* Let's try again.
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+* Let's try again.
+* OK, basicSettings all set at once.
+  * This sorts it, now let's get a date format working
+* Now let's see if this works...
+  * Date format set:
+  * Level and File set in variable
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diff --git a/source/courier-to-mailman3.py b/source/courier-to-mailman3.py
index 7f4d2df..2ee44e7 100644
--- a/source/courier-to-mailman3.py
+++ b/source/courier-to-mailman3.py
@@ -14,9 +14,13 @@
 import logging
 logger = logging.getLogger(__name__)
 
-FORMAT = '%(asctime)s %(clientip)-15s %(user)-8s %(message)s'
-DATEFMT = '%Y-$M-$d %H:%m:%S'
-logging.basicConfig(filename='/opt/mailman/logs/courier-to-mailman.log', level=logging.INFO, format=FORMAT)
+# Format time and message
+FORMAT = '%(asctime)s %(message)s'
+# Set Date Format
+DATEFMT = '%Y-$m-$d %H:%M:%S %Z'
+LEVEL=logging.INFO
+LOGFILE='/opt/mailman/logs/courier-to-mailman.log'
+logging.basicConfig(filename=LOGFILE, level=LEVEL, format=FORMAT, datefmt=DATEFMT)
 
 logger.info('format set to: %s', FORMAT)
 print('format set to: %s', FORMAT)