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diff --git a/doc/INSTALL-exim4.md b/doc/INSTALL-exim4.md
index 91c3506d3..e37da14ff 100644
--- a/doc/INSTALL-exim4.md
+++ b/doc/INSTALL-exim4.md
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ In `/etc/exim4/conf.d/main/04_alaveteli_options`:
(The user ALAVETELI_USER should have write permissions on ALAVETELI_HOME).
Note that the name and location of the log files created by Exim must match
-what the `load-exim-logs` script expects, hence the need for the extra
+what the `load-mail-server-logs` script expects, hence the need for the extra
`log_file_path` setting. And the `check-recent-requests-sent` scripts expects
the logs to contain the `from=<...>` envelope information, so we make the
logs more verbose with `log_selector`.
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: