Email Log

[hci]

Is there anyway with the GUI to view the last 10 or 100 lines of the Smtp/Exim/Pop3 log with the GUI interface like you can with Http? That sure would be handy. When someone calls with an email problem you could just quickly log in and look at it. Telneting in is more time comsuming and not all support staff are allowed too or know how.

Matthew

[nobaloney]

I don't know about you, but we get more than ten lines per second in our /var/log/exim/mainlog on our busiest servers; you couldn't tell anything from the last ten lines; probably not from the last 100.

Jeff

[hci]

I don't know about you, but we get more than ten lines per second in our /var/log/exim/mainlog on our busiest servers; you couldn't tell anything from the last ten lines; probably not from the last 100.

Good point. We don't get that much traffic though. Usually only 500 - 1000 messages an hour. It would be really handy for us though. If we had a user having email problems we could look at the log as they try it. Right now with the RAQ550 I must download a 20Mbyte file to look at the logs.

Matthew

[nobaloney]

You can look at the logs while they try it as long as you have root access:

# tail -f /var/log/exim/mainlog

or

# tail -f /var/log/exim/rejectlog

Jeff

[bwrob]

I check all my logs from the net using.
Log to port http://www.yourdomain.com:10000.
Open that port if using FW.
Webmin latest version.
http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/webadmin/webmin-1.150-1.noarch.rpm
Just installed it
Make a user, read logs only.
Can read any logs in /var/log or any other folder.
I also control SSH config with it, change passwords etc.

Caution, do not change anything in httpd Apache config or dns config.

DirectAdmin is using its own dedicated httpd config.

Webmin is great for reading logs.

bob