Which logs to monitor to ensure MailScanner/SPAMASSASSIN are working???

[Drew Marshall]

On 7 Nov 2005, at 21:01, Marc Dufresne wrote:

> I have installed FreeBSD 5.4 and latest port of MailScanner that  
> bundles
> SpamAssassin 3.1. I am using sendmail to intercept all incoming/ 
> outgoing
> mail.
>
> In order to determine if MailScanner and Spam Assassin are working,
> which log files should I monitor? I normally monitor all
> incoming/outgoing mail from /var/log/maillog. What other log files
> should I look at???

Assuming you have left MailScanner.conf's logging options as the  
default then /var/log/maillog is all you have t look at. Don't forget  
that under FreeBSD you need to start MailScanner some thing like '/ 
usr/local/etc/rc.d/mailscanner.sh start' it doesn't start with your MTA.

Drew

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