Postfix and the system.log

[Daniel J. Luke]

On Jan 25, 2017, at 1:39 PM, Johannes Kastl <mail at ojkastl.de> wrote:
> 
> I just tried to get the macports postfix running on my macos Sierra
> machine. But I could not get useful logs out of it.

you're looking in the wrong place.

For stuff built on Sierra, logging goes through apple's new logging system.

see the 'log' manpage.

To replicate tail -f /var/log/mail.log you'd do something like:

log stream --style syslog --type log --predicate '(processImagePath contains "postfix")'

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Daniel J. Luke