Re: [Devil-Linux-discuss] Postfix Logs

[James K. <jke...@gm...>]

Yes I believe I'm not allowing them through. They are all currently tagged
as active queue, so I think I know what is happening now. Thanks again for
the help.

On Thu, Sep 2, 2010 at 1:54 PM, Heiko Zuerker <he...@zu...> wrote:

> sending the queued mail is done with:
>
> sendmail -q
>
> I really can't help you configure and debug your mail system, please take a
> look at the postfix documentation.
>
> Heiko
>
> Quoting James Kessler <jke...@gm...>:
>
> Yes, thank you very much.
>
> I did run a quick mailq, and it does seem that all messages I've attempted
> to send are indeed stuck in the queue. How can I clear them?
>
> On Thu, Sep 2, 2010 at 1:19 PM, Heiko Zuerker <he...@zu...> wrote:
>
>> Almost forgot:
>> after changing the syslog-ng config file, you'll of course have to
>> activate the changes by either running
>> /etc/init.d/syslog reload
>> or
>> /etc/init.d/syslog restart
>>
>> Heiko
>>
>> Quoting Heiko Zuerker <he...@zu...>:
>>
>> > James,
>> >
>> > per default syslog-ng is active, not syslog.
>> > You'll have to edit the file /etc/syslog-ng/syslog-ng.conf and
>> > simply uncomment the 2 lines for /var/log/messages.
>> > This will log all messages, not just mail.
>> >
>> > You could also simply check on console 10 for postfix messages ( alt F10
>> ).
>> >
>> > You can use the mailq command to see if the mail is still hanging in
>> > the queue.
>> >
>> > Heiko
>> >
>> > Quoting James Kessler <jke...@gm...>:
>> >
>> >> Hello again, I have just initiated Postfix in Devil Linux. I've
>> >> walked through
>> >> the configuration files and believe I have set everything up
>> >> correctly. When I execute a simple mail command to test it, I am
>> >> able to fill out all categories such as subject, the message body
>> >> and so on. After I hit ctr+D it seems to send the message without
>> >> any errors. However, I am not actually receiving the email. I'm
>> >> thinking it's possible I am blocking it within my own firewall,
>> >> however I would like to setup my own Postfix Log to see if I am
>> >> getting any errors. It is to my understanding that Postfix logs all
>> >> failed and
>> >> successful deliveries write to a log file. The file, in my case is
>> >> in /var/log/mail, and I initiate it in the /etc/syslog.conf file.
>> >> However the problem is that after I un-comment the /var/log/mail
>> >> line in /etc/syslog.conf the mail log is not being generated after I
>> >> attempt to send mail.  I have tried a Postfix Reload.  Any
>> >> thoughts? Thanks again. -- James E. Kessler
>> >
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>> >   Heiko Zuerker
>> > http://www.devil-linux.org
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