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/opt/psa/var/log/maillog empty

SalvadorS

Regular Pleskian
Hello,

I create a new server (Debian 7, Plesk 11.5.30) and when I went to check /opt/psa/var/log/maillog (useful sometimes) the file is empty since I created the server two days ago (now the serves has 100 domains)

root@server:/opt/psa/var/log# ls -l
total 4
-rw------- 1 root root 867 ago 8 19:26 ftp_tls.log
-rw-r----- 1 root root 0 ago 6 17:32 maillog
-rw-r----- 1 root root 0 ago 7 07:35 maillog.processed
-rw-r----- 1 root root 0 ago 9 07:35 mail_traffic_pendings.dat
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 ago 9 07:35 smtp_pendings.log

This is correct? It is possible to activate this log?

Thanks
 
This is expected if you don't use mail at all :) Though highly unlikely.

Make sure your (r)syslog configuration file has an entry similar to:

mail.* -/opt/psa/var/log/maillog

Then reload syslog service.
 
Hello,

I have it:

root@server:/var/log# grep maillog /etc/rsyslog.conf
mail.* -/opt/psa/var/log/maillog

Also I check another server with Debian 7, Plesk 11.5.30 and same issue...
 
Hello,

Can anybody with plesk 11.5.30 (and Debian 7 if it is possible) if the file /opt/psa/var/log/maillog is empty.

All the servers I have with Plesk 11.5.30 has the file empty...

Thanks a lot
 
I checked yesterday on a Debian 7 x64 server and it was OK for me. I suggest checking whether you have mail records elsewhere at all, like /var/log/mail*.
 
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