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Viewing the Mail Service Logs
You can use tail or any other file listing tool to view the contents of the Mail service
logs.
To view the latest entries in a log:
$ tail log-file
You can use the serveradmin getLogPaths command to see where the Mail service
logs are located.
To display the log locations:
$ sudo serveradmin command mail:command = getLogPaths
Output
mail:Server Log = <server-log>
mail:Lists qrunner = <lists-log>
mail:Lists post = <postings-log>
mail:Lists smtp = <delivery-log>
mail:Lists subscribe = <subscriptions-log>
mail:SMTP Log = <smtp-log>
mail:POP Log = <pop-log>
mail:Lists error = <listerrors-log>
mail:IMAP Log = <imap-log>
mail:Lists smtp-failure = <failures-log>
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Value
Description
<server-log>
The location of the server log. Default = srvr.log
<lists-log>
The location of the Mailing Lists log. Default =
/private/var/mailman/logs/qrunner
<postings-log>
The location of the Mailing Lists Postings log. Default =
/private/var/mailman/logs/post
<delivery-log>
The location of the Mailing Lists Delivery log. Default =
/private/var/mailman/logs/smtp
<subscriptions-log>
The location of the Mailing Lists Subscriptions log. Default =
/private/var/mailman/logs/subscribe
<smtp-log>
The location of the server log. Default = smtp.log
<pop-log>
The location of the server log. Default = pop3.log
<listerrors-log>
The location of the Mailing Lists Error log. Default =
/private/var/mailman/logs/error
<imap-log>
The location of the server log. Default = imap.log
<failures-log>
The location of the Mailing Lists Delivery Failures log. Default =
/private/var/mailman/logs/smtp-failure
Chapter 11 Working With Mail Service