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CaribbeanKnight
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 Posted: Wed Feb 25, 2004 8:45 am Post subject: fetchmail/procmail log question |
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i've just setup a mailserver using the guide somewhere in this forum... now everything's working except i suspect a number of mails not getting through somewhere (more than 50%)..
so my question is, where are the logfiles of fetchmail/procmail/courier-imap so i can check what went wrong...? |
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CaribbeanKnight
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| Posted: Thu Feb 26, 2004 4:55 am Post subject: |
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...bump...
already found out that the log file 'should' go in the /var/log/mail directory, but the last things logged in this directory are from before i switched from metalog to syslog-ng..
is this the default behaviour with syslog-ng? or does it log mail stuff somewhere else maybe..?
else i have to switch back to metalog... but i hear syslog-ng is better (why anyone..?) so i'd prefer to keep that logger..  |
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Ijon Tichy
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Procmail will log where you tell it to by way of your .procmailrc:
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VERBOSE=on
PMDIR=$HOME/.procmail
LOGFILE=$PMDIR/log
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Looks like the default install of syslog-ng is to log everything to /var/log/messages, so that's probably where you'd find fetchmail logs. Either that or it'll log to where ever you've got MAIL.ERR/ALERT/INFO going. Make sure you've got fetchmail logging to syslog, of course:
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From 'man fetchmail':
The --syslog option (keyword: set syslog) allows you to redirect status
and error messages emitted to the syslog(3) system daemon if available.
Messages are logged with an id of fetchmail, the facility LOG_MAIL, and
priorities LOG_ERR, LOG_ALERT or LOG_INFO. This option is intended for
logging status and error messages which indicate the status of the dae-
mon and the results while fetching mail from the server(s). Error mes-
sages for command line options and parsing the .fetchmailrc file are
still written to stderr, or to the specified log file. The --nosyslog
option turns off use of syslog(3), assuming it's turned on in the
~/.fetchmailrc file, or that the -L or --logfile <file> option was
used.
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Hope this helps a bit. |
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