maillog vs Mailwatch log

[Jerry Benton]

Walt,

Checking the logging section of MailScanner.conf. The most obvious candidate would be:

# This is the syslog "facility" name that MailScanner uses. If you don't
# know what a syslog facility name is, then either don't change this value
# or else go and read "man syslog.conf". The default value of "mail" will
# cause the MailScanner logs to go into the same place as all your other
# mail logs.
Syslog Facility = mail

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Jerry Benton
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> On Dec 14, 2016, at 4:21 PM, Walt Thiessen <wt at dld2000.com> wrote:
> 
> Thanks for that, Jerry. 
> 
> I confronted them with what you said. However, while they hava ceased to claim that MailScanner doesn't log to /var/log/maillog, they insist that they have checked and there's nothing wrong with the logging function on the system.
> 
> Can you think of anything that might block MailScanner from logging successfully to /var/log/maillog?
> 
> On 12/13/2016 7:55 PM, Jerry Benton wrote:
>> MailScanner does log to /var/log/maillog
>> 
>> MailWatch is an additional .pm file that logs to mysql. 
>> 
>> You server admins are wrong. 
>> 
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>>> On Dec 13, 2016, at 6:18 PM, Walt Thiessen <wt at dld2000.com <mailto:wt at dld2000.com>> wrote:
>>> 
>>> With v4, I remember that MailScanner logged to /var/log/maillog.
>>> 
>>> However, after my server admins moved me to a different server this past September and upgraded to v5, it seems that /var/log/maillog isn't where MailScanner logs anymore ... at least on our server.
>>> 
>>> My server admins claim that this is because MailScanner now logs to MailWatch instead.
>>> 
>>> I always remembered MailWatch as an application that maintained its own database, separate from MailScanner. Maybe I'm wrong.
>>> 
>>> Is this truly the new configuration, or is this a reflection of something wrong my server admins did?
>>> 
>>> Walt
>>> 
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