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diff --git a/doc/INSTALL-postfix.md b/doc/INSTALL-postfix.md index 70a2954bd..a73d67ce1 100644 --- a/doc/INSTALL-postfix.md +++ b/doc/INSTALL-postfix.md @@ -31,6 +31,34 @@ following to /etc/aliases: # We use this for envelope from for some messages where we don't care about delivery do-not-reply-to-this-address: :blackhole: +# Logging + +For the postfix logs to be read by the script 'load-mail-server-logs' succesfully they need to be log rotated with a date in the filename. Since that will create a lot of rotated log files (one for each day), it's good to have them in their own directory. For example (on Ubuntu) /etc/rsyslog.d/50-default.conf + + mail.* -/var/log/mail/mail.log + +And also edit /etc/logrotate.d/rsyslog: + + /var/log/mail/mail.log + { + rotate 30 + daily + dateext + missingok + notifempty + compress + delaycompress + sharedscripts + postrotate + reload rsyslog >/dev/null 2>&1 || true + endscript + } + +You'll also need to tell Alaveteli where the log files are stored and that they're in postfix format. Update config/general.yml with: + + MTA_LOG_PATH: '/var/log/mail/mail.log-*' + MTA_LOG_TYPE: "postfix" + # Troubleshooting To test mail delivery, run: |