Overview

This guide will help beginners on the (dv) Dedicated-Virtual find and view their qmail log files.

Instructions

In order to see the mail log files, you should be logged into SSH as root. The qmail logs are located in the following directory:

/usr/local/psa/var/log/maillog

You can use the following command to view your qmail logs:

tail -f /usr/local/psa/var/log/maillog

Here's a typical log sequence showing the complete transmission of one piece of mail:

Oct  3 16:50:19 dv35 qmail: 1223077819.930048 new msg 163786382
Oct  3 16:50:19 dv35 qmail: 1223077819.930096 info msg 163786382: bytes 860 from <> qp 24106 uid 2522
Oct  3 16:50:19 dv35 qmail: 1223077819.937789 starting delivery 2: msg 163786382 to local 2-user@example.com
Oct  3 16:50:19 dv35 qmail: 1223077819.937835 status: local 1/10 remote 0/20
Oct  3 16:50:19 dv35 qmail-local-handlers[24107]: Handlers Filter before-local for qmail started ...
Oct  3 16:50:19 dv35 qmail-local-handlers[24107]: from=
Oct  3 16:50:19 dv35 qmail-local-handlers[24107]: to=user@example.com
Oct  3 16:50:20 dv35 qmail: 1223077820.159866 delivery 2: success: did_0+0+2/
Oct  3 16:50:20 dv35 qmail: 1223077820.160087 status: local 0/10 remote 0/20
Oct  3 16:50:20 dv35 qmail: 1223077820.160159 end msg 163786382