Agree with Dan. As well a good way to know if ossec is reading the file is 
running the following command:

lsof +d /var/log/ | grep mail

On Friday, August 23, 2013 5:56:14 AM UTC-7, dan (ddpbsd) wrote:
>
> On Fri, Aug 23, 2013 at 4:02 AM, Mehmet Ali Büyükkarakaş 
> <[email protected] <javascript:>> wrote: 
> > Hello everybody, 
> > 
> > I just want to send my postfix logs (/var/log/mail.log) to my alienvault 
> > server. I inserted a record into /opt/ossec/etc/ossec.conf file ; 
> > 
> > <localfile> 
> >     <log_format>syslog</log_format> 
> >     <location>/var/log/mail.log</location> 
> >   </localfile> 
> > 
>
> Did you make this change on the email server (agent) or the ossec 
> server? You need to make this change on the mail server. Did you 
> restart the ossec processes after making this change? You should. You 
> should see an entry similar to this in your ossec.log file (on the 
> agent): 
> 2013/07/08 08:38:48 ossec-logcollector(1950): INFO: Analyzing file: 
> '/var/log/maillog'. 
> Do you? 
>
> > But I cant see nothing in SIEM. It's a default installation and postfix 
> is 
> > included in the Config / Rules. 
> > 
> > What I'm doing wrong ? Could you please help me ? 
> > 
> > Thank you. 
> > 
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