Where is my Dovecot mail log?

akust0m

• April 03, 2016 21:31

Hello, I am quite new to cPanel but there doesn't appear to be a log file at /var/log/maillog? Do I have to enable something within cPanel to generate this log file? Edit: Actually I've noticed that syslog is not installed in CentOS minimal version, I assume it needs the syslog daemon running?

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  ssfred

  • April 04, 2016 04:25

  Hello syslogd is replaced with Rsyslogd in newer installations. You can check the availability of the service using the command # ps aux | grep syslog root 689 0.0 0.0 39428 3152 ? Sl 2015 27:55 /sbin/rsyslogd -i /var/run/syslogd.pid -c 5 Once the service availability is confirmed, check whether the service is properly configured for mail server logs. You can confirm it by checking the following entry in /etc/rsyslog.conf # Log all the mail messages in one place. mail.* -/var/log/maillog

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  cPanelMichael

  • April 04, 2016 23:08

  Hello :) Yes, as mentioned, you should see rsyslogd installed by default. Has any new data populated to /var/log/maillog since your original post? Is Dovecot running on this system? EX:
  /scripts/restartsrv_dovecot --status
  Thank you.

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