maillog vs Mailwatch log

Jerry Benton jerry.benton at mailborder.com
Wed Dec 14 21:37:08 UTC 2016


It is running, right? MailScanner was decoupled from the MTA in v5. 

What does MailScanner —lint produce?

What OS is this on? 

Is the OS preventing it from logging? 

Does your MTA log to /var/log/maillog?

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Jerry Benton
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> On Dec 14, 2016, at 4:34 PM, Walt Thiessen <wt at dld2000.com> wrote:
> 
> 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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>> Jerry Benton
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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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>>>> Jerry Benton
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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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