mail log

[j773303]

Is it possible to know users were sent mail?
Any log on this for each user?

[Joaquin Gil de Vergara]

try it changing the loglevel in the sendmail.cf file

[j773303]

The mail was sent by mail and mailx.

[Massimo Bianchi · Accepted solution]

Hi, all is logged in /var/adm/syslog/mail.log

Massimo

[twang]

# tail /var/adm/syslog/mail.log

[Michael Tully]

There is not a log for each individual user, all mail entries are logged into /var/adm/syslog/syslog.log

There are a few specially written email packages that you could install if you wanted something further. I am sure sendmail could cater for this, but you are welcome to wade through sendmail mire. Have a look at the offerings from this link.

http://hpux.connect.org.uk/hppd/hpux/Networking/Mail/

[Michael Tully]

Further to this the incoming mail itself will be sent by default to /var/mail/~username

[Rory R Hammond]

syslogd logs mail messages according to the levels and specifications described in /etc/syslog.conf

You need to look at /etc/syslog.conf
to verify were your mail "stuff" is logged.
on my systems mail.debug is logged in:
/var/adm/syslog/mail.log

I have seen some use /var/adm/syslog/syslog.log
My AIX box used /usr/spool/mqueue/syslog before
I changed it.
On my linux box messages are logged in /var/log/maillog.


It all depends on how you setup /etc/syslog.conf

Rory

[someone_4]

hi

the mtail command also tails the mail.log file for you.

mtail
gives you the last 20 lines

mtail 50

gives you the last 50 lines


Richard