I have qmail running on a Debian Linux box, and hopefully someone can
clarify for me how qmail is supposed to handle it's logging processes.
I find log directories in /var/log/qmail and I would assume this is
where qmail is supposed to do it's logging. However, after some
searching, I find /var/log/mail/mail.info, and this mail.info file
appears to accumulate and log all the activities of the server including
startup time, SMTP connections from remote hosts, POP connections, etc.
I don't think this is the way the logging is supposed to work, after
studying the qmail documentation.
Is it possible I have a 'bastard' installation of qmail? By that I mean
that Corel (Debian) Linux Server Version was loaded into this box and
qmail was installed with the Linux installation. The more I work with
this system the more I suspect that there's been some custom settings
made to qmail by whoever wrote the Corel distribution of Linux. So I'm
asking if someone can tell me if this /var/log/mail/mail.info file is a
normal file for qmail to generate during it's logging processes?
Thanks much,
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Chris Olson
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I've been told unix is user-friendly. It's just
very choosey about who it's friends are.
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