Mail Log file

[kassie]

Hi guys

I know how to view the mail log file, but it only shows the current days log. How do I view previous days?

thanks and love your guys work

[catdude]

Originally Posted by kassie

Hi guys

I know how to view the mail log file, but it only shows the current days log. How do I view previous days?

thanks and love your guys work

logrotate is most likely rotating your logs for you. To view yesterday's log, use "more /var/log/mail.log.0". To view, for example the log from the day before yesterday, try "zcat /var/log/mail.log.1.gz | more".

[kassie]

Thanks that worked great.

Now the next question. How can I see:

1) When a user downloaded mail

2) If there was any mail downloaded

3) What mail was downloaded.

Thanks

[catdude]

Originally Posted by kassie

Thanks that worked great.

Now the next question. How can I see:

1) When a user downloaded mail

2) If there was any mail downloaded

3) What mail was downloaded.

Thanks

1) You can see when user's downloaded mail by looking for entries like:

Nov 28 06:25:23 gx courierpop3login: LOGIN, user=dan@smurgle.net, ip=[::ffff:69.66.44.241]

followed by a line like:

Nov 28 06:25:24 gx courierpop3login: LOGOUT, user=dan@smurgle.net, ip=[::ffff:69.66.44.241], top=0, retr=4091, time=1


2) There's really no way that I'm aware of to tell if any messages were downloaded, or which ones were downloaded. I suppose you could look at the time difference between the LOGIN and LOGOUT, and assume that if the connect period was only a second then the user probably didn't download 10 MB of messages, but even that vague assumption would be unprovable.

[kassie]

Thanks catdude