maillog vs Mailwatch log

[Walt Thiessen]

Thanks Jerry. I checked, and it's already set to Syslog Facility = mail.

Any other ideas?


On 12/14/2016 4:24 PM, Jerry Benton wrote:
> 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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>> On Dec 14, 2016, at 4:21 PM, Walt Thiessen <wt at dld2000.com 
>> <mailto: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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