Re: [gentoo-user] tracking the life of an email.

2006-02-25 Thread Mariusz Pękala
On 2006-02-24 17:03:24 -0500 (Fri, Feb), Nick Smith wrote: > for some reason qmail spreads things out into 3 or 4 or 5 different > log files, one for sent, smtp, pop, imap etc, its a real pain to go > through those files, i dont know if its qmail or syslog-ng thats doing > it, but ive been wanting

Re: [gentoo-user] tracking the life of an email.

2006-02-24 Thread kashani
Nick Smith wrote: > for some reason qmail spreads things out into 3 or 4 or 5 different log files, one for sent, smtp, pop, imap etc, its a real pain to go through those files, i dont know if its qmail or syslog-ng thats doing it, but ive been wanting to find a way to combine all those logs into

Re: [gentoo-user] tracking the life of an email.

2006-02-24 Thread Nick Smith
> > Most of these components will issue messages to syslog using the 'mail' > facility. If you configure your syslog daemon to route messages from > this facility to, say, /var/log/mail.log, you'll have all of the info > you need. > > If you're using syslog-ng, the following addition will do this

Re: [gentoo-user] tracking the life of an email.

2006-02-24 Thread Dave Nebinger
Nick Smith wrote: i have setup a mailserver running qmail with clamav and spamassassin, and it uses queue-scanner. im still learning alot about administering mail servers, and i was wondering, how can i track a message going through the system? i know i can stumble through the log files, but how

[gentoo-user] tracking the life of an email.

2006-02-24 Thread Nick Smith
i have setup a mailserver running qmail with clamav and spamassassin, and it uses queue-scanner. im still learning alot about administering mail servers, and i was wondering, how can i track a message going through the system? i know i can stumble through the log files, but how do i know the exact