diff --git a/config.def.h b/config.def.h
index 08aa4ca..f100b45 100644
--- a/config.def.h
+++ b/config.def.h
@@ -35,15 +35,16 @@ static const linkStruct links[] = {
 	},
 };
 
-/*
- * 0: Fatal errors
- * 1: Errors
- * 2: Normal output
- * 3: Info messages
- * 4: Verbose mode
-*/
+enum logLevels {
+	LOG_FATAL,
+	LOG_ERROR,
+	LOG_OUTPUT,
+	LOG_INFO,
+	LOG_VERBOSE,
+};
 
-static const int logLevel = 2;
+// Print all messages at least as important as this level.
+static const int logLevel = LOG_OUTPUT;
 
 // Set the maximum amount of redirects curl will follow.
 // Use 0 to disable redirects, and -1 for no limit.
diff --git a/handlers.c b/handlers.c
index d9d7c35..a8edd9e 100644
--- a/handlers.c
+++ b/handlers.c
@@ -52,7 +52,7 @@ void
 copyField(itemStruct *item, enum fields field, char *str)
 {
 	if (!str) {
-		logMsg(1, "Attempted to assign a null pointer to a field!\n");
+		logMsg(LOG_ERROR, "Attempted to assign a null pointer to a field!\n");
 		return;
 	}
 
@@ -66,7 +66,7 @@ atomLink(itemStruct *item, xmlNodePtr node)
 	xmlChar *rel = xmlGetProp(node, (xmlChar *) "rel");
 
 	if (!href) {
-		logMsg(1, "Invalid link tag.\n");
+		logMsg(LOG_ERROR, "Invalid link tag.\n");
 		if (rel)
 			xmlFree(rel);
 		return 1;
@@ -89,7 +89,7 @@ rssEnclosure(itemStruct *item, xmlNodePtr node)
 {
 	xmlChar *href = xmlGetProp(node, (xmlChar *) "url");
 	if (!href) {
-		logMsg(1, "Invalid enclosure URL.\n");
+		logMsg(LOG_ERROR, "Invalid enclosure URL.\n");
 		return 1;
 	}
 
@@ -107,13 +107,13 @@ openFile(const char *folder, char *fileName, char *fileExt)
 	// caller's responsibility to sanitize names, but frees fileName
 	
 	if (!folder) {
-		logMsg(1, "NULL folder");
+		logMsg(LOG_ERROR, "NULL folder");
 		return NULL;
 	} else if (!fileName) {
-		logMsg(1, "NULL file base name");
+		logMsg(LOG_ERROR, "NULL file base name");
 		return NULL;
 	} else if (!fileExt) {
-		logMsg(1, "NULL file extension");
+		logMsg(LOG_ERROR, "NULL file extension");
 		return NULL;
 	}
 
@@ -129,7 +129,7 @@ openFile(const char *folder, char *fileName, char *fileExt)
 	if (fileName[0])
 		filePath = ecalloc(pathLen, sizeof(char));
 	else {
-		logMsg(1, "Invalid filename.\n");
+		logMsg(LOG_ERROR, "Invalid filename.\n");
 		return NULL;
 	}
 
@@ -220,7 +220,7 @@ itemAction(itemStruct *item, const char *folder)
 #endif //JSON
 	   		
 			default:
-				logMsg(0, "Output format is invalid.");
+				logMsg(LOG_FATAL, "Output format is invalid.");
 				break;
 		}
 		
@@ -238,7 +238,7 @@ itemAction(itemStruct *item, const char *folder)
 	}
 
 	if (newItems)
-		logMsg(2, "%s : %d new articles\n", folder, newItems);
+		logMsg(LOG_OUTPUT, "%s : %d new articles\n", folder, newItems);
 }
 
 void
@@ -247,9 +247,9 @@ finish(char *url, long responseCode)
 	// Executed after a download finishes
 
 	if (responseCode == 200)
-		logMsg(4, "Finished downloading %s\n", url);
+		logMsg(LOG_VERBOSE, "Finished downloading %s\n", url);
 	else if (!responseCode)
-		logMsg(1, "Can not reach %s: ensure the protocol is enabled and the site is accessible.\n", url);
+		logMsg(LOG_ERROR, "Can not reach %s: ensure the protocol is enabled and the site is accessible.\n", url);
 	else
-		logMsg(1, "HTTP %ld for %s\n", responseCode, url);
+		logMsg(LOG_ERROR, "HTTP %ld for %s\n", responseCode, url);
 }
diff --git a/minrss.c b/minrss.c
index 2020f5b..204e1d1 100644
--- a/minrss.c
+++ b/minrss.c
@@ -41,7 +41,7 @@ parseXml(xmlDocPtr doc,
 	// Parse the XML in a single document.
 
 	if (!feedName || !feedName[0]) {
-		logMsg(1, "Missing feed name, please set one.\n");
+		logMsg(LOG_ERROR, "Missing feed name, please set one.\n");
 		return 1;
 	}
 
@@ -50,7 +50,7 @@ parseXml(xmlDocPtr doc,
 	rootNode = xmlDocGetRootElement(doc);
 
 	if (!rootNode) {
-		logMsg(1, "Empty document for feed.\n");
+		logMsg(LOG_ERROR, "Empty document for feed.\n");
 		return 1;
 	}
 
@@ -65,7 +65,7 @@ parseXml(xmlDocPtr doc,
 
 	
 	if (format == NONE) {
-		logMsg(1, "XML document is not an RSS or Atom feed.\n");
+		logMsg(LOG_ERROR, "XML document is not an RSS or Atom feed.\n");
 		return 1;
 	}
 
@@ -79,7 +79,7 @@ parseXml(xmlDocPtr doc,
 				cur = cur->next;
 
 			if (!cur || !tagIs(cur, "channel")) {
-				logMsg(1, "Invalid RSS syntax.\n");
+				logMsg(LOG_ERROR, "Invalid RSS syntax.\n");
 				return 1;
 			}
 
@@ -93,7 +93,7 @@ parseXml(xmlDocPtr doc,
 			break;
 
 		default:
-			logMsg(1, "Missing starting tag for format\n");
+			logMsg(LOG_ERROR, "Missing starting tag for format\n");
 			return 1;
 	}
 
@@ -113,7 +113,7 @@ parseXml(xmlDocPtr doc,
 				isArticle = tagIs(cur, "entry");
 				break;
 			default:
-				logMsg(1, "Missing article tag name for format\n");
+				logMsg(LOG_ERROR, "Missing article tag name for format\n");
 				return 1;
 		}
 
@@ -168,7 +168,7 @@ parseXml(xmlDocPtr doc,
 	int stat = mkdir((const char* ) feedName, S_IRWXU);
 
 	if (!stat && errno && errno != EEXIST) {
-		logMsg(1, "Error creating directory for feed.\n");
+		logMsg(LOG_ERROR, "Error creating directory for feed.\n");
 		return 1;
 	}
 
@@ -188,14 +188,14 @@ readDoc(char *content,
 
 	doc = xmlReadMemory(content, strlen(content), "noname.xml", NULL, 0);
 	if (!doc) {
-		logMsg(1, "XML parser error.\n");
+		logMsg(LOG_ERROR, "XML parser error.\n");
 		return 1;
 	}
 
 	int stat = parseXml(doc, feedName, itemAction);
 
 	if (stat)
-		logMsg(1, "Skipped feed %s due to errors.\n", feedName);
+		logMsg(LOG_ERROR, "Skipped feed %s due to errors.\n", feedName);
 
 	xmlFreeDoc(doc);
 
@@ -206,9 +206,9 @@ int
 main(int argc, char *argv[])
 {
 	if (argc == 2 && !strcmp("-v", argv[1]))
-		logMsg(0, "MinRSS %s\n", VERSION);
+		logMsg(LOG_FATAL, "MinRSS %s\n", VERSION);
 	else if (argc != 1)
-		logMsg(0, "Usage: minrss [-v]\n");
+		logMsg(LOG_FATAL, "Usage: minrss [-v]\n");
 
 	unsigned int i = 0;
 
@@ -223,7 +223,7 @@ main(int argc, char *argv[])
 		struct stat feedDir;
 
 		if (links[0].url[0] == '\0')
-			logMsg(0, "No feeds, add them in config.def.h\n");
+			logMsg(LOG_FATAL, "No feeds, add them in config.def.h\n");
 
 		if (stat(links[i].feedName, &feedDir) == 0) {
 			time_t deltaTime = timeNow - feedDir.st_atime;
@@ -231,16 +231,16 @@ main(int argc, char *argv[])
 				continue;
 		}
 
-		logMsg(4, "Requesting %s\n", links[i].url);
+		logMsg(LOG_VERBOSE, "Requesting %s\n", links[i].url);
 		createRequest(links[i].url, &outputs[i]);
 	}
 
 	performRequests(finish);
 
-	logMsg(3, "Finished downloads.\n");
+	logMsg(LOG_INFO, "Finished downloads.\n");
 
 	for (i = 0; i < LEN(links); i++) {
-		logMsg(5, "Parsing %s\n", links[i].url);
+		logMsg(LOG_VERBOSE, "Parsing %s\n", links[i].url);
 
 		if (outputs[i].buffer && outputs[i].buffer[0]) {
 			if (readDoc(outputs[i].buffer, links[i].feedName, itemAction) == 0) {
@@ -258,7 +258,7 @@ main(int argc, char *argv[])
 		}
 	}
 
-	logMsg(3, "Finished parsing feeds.\n");
+	logMsg(LOG_INFO, "Finished parsing feeds.\n");
 
 	return 0;
 }
diff --git a/net.c b/net.c
index d7879cc..a0c7aea 100644
--- a/net.c
+++ b/net.c
@@ -60,14 +60,14 @@ createRequest(const char* url, outputStruct *output)
 	CURL *requestHandle = curl_easy_init();
 
 	if (!requestHandle)
-		logMsg(0, "Can't initialise curl.\n");
+		logMsg(LOG_FATAL, "Can't initialise curl.\n");
 
 	output->buffer = NULL;
 	output->size = 0;
 
 	CURLcode stat;
 	if (curl_easy_setopt(requestHandle, CURLOPT_URL, url)) {
-		logMsg(1, "Invalid URL: %s\n", url);
+		logMsg(LOG_ERROR, "Invalid URL: %s\n", url);
 	}
 
 	stat = curl_easy_setopt(requestHandle, CURLOPT_WRITEFUNCTION, writeCallback);
diff --git a/util.c b/util.c
index 7448b10..5a61dd8 100644
--- a/util.c
+++ b/util.c
@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ logMsg(int lvl, char *msg, ...)
 	va_start(args, msg);
 
 	if (lvl <= logLevel) {
-		if (lvl == 2) {
+		if (lvl == LOG_OUTPUT) {
 			vfprintf(stdout, msg, args);
 		} else {
 			fprintf(stderr, "minrss: ");
@@ -44,7 +44,7 @@ ecalloc(size_t nmemb, size_t size)
 	void *p = calloc(nmemb, size);
 
 	if (!p)
-		logMsg(0, "Error allocating memory.\n");
+		logMsg(LOG_FATAL, "Error allocating memory.\n");
 
 	return p;
 }
@@ -55,7 +55,7 @@ erealloc(void *p, size_t size)
 	p = realloc(p, size);
 
 	if (!p)
-		logMsg(0, "Error reallocating memory.\n");
+		logMsg(LOG_FATAL, "Error reallocating memory.\n");
 
 	return p;
 }