Hi There

I need to check my emails logs for a particular user, they are having problems emailing users of a board, seems to send emails to some of the members and not others, everytime the user sends an email to his list it goes to a random amount each time and not the full amount, so its been suggested that i need to look at the email logs for errors, so using ssh what would the command be that i ran to view or download the email logs?

Thanks!!

anyone know how to view mail logs using ssh?

cheers

You have to look at /var/log/maillog

You can tail it and do some send/receive to those users so you can see email activity in realtime:

tail -f /var/log/maillog

Then send and receive. hit CTRL+c to exit tailing.

Make sure you have your server properly set and a valid hostname plus a reverse DNS - PTR record for your IP/hostname

Hi thanks for that,

How to i get to the location of /var/log/maillog ?

Also

I ran the command tail -f /var/log/maillog and can see this thing going over and over again, its been going for about 30mins do i need to worry about this?

Sep 6 09:03:26 ensim sendmail[12766]: i85IxwbF009559: to=alexmetz@gmx.net, delay=13:03:28, xdelay=00:00:02, mailer=esmtp, pri=1145919, relay=mx0.gmx.de. [213.165.64.100], dsn=4.3.2, stat=Deferred: 450 4.3.2 {mx050} Too many mails (mail bomb), try again in 2 hour(s) 28 minute(s)