Questions on postfix

[Horst Simon]

You should with this logging you should get the information in your postfix log as in mail.log, this is what I get.

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> On 29 Dec 2023, at 09:36, Ubence Quevedo (thatrat) <thatrat at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Thanks for pointing that out.  I added that and tweaked the permissions, and I’m getting some logging about the service starting/stopping, but I’m not getting the same type of logging I’m expecting from my Linux systems.
> 
> I can usually look in /var/log/mail.log on my Ubuntu server to see the status of the outgoing mail.
> 
> Looking further, it looks like it’s related to syslog on that system, which isn’t quite the same functionality that macOS has.
> 
> Any suggestions on how to be able to log the output of mail commands to postfix similar to how it is done in Linux?
> 
> -Ubence
> 
> On Dec 28, 2023, at 1:51 PM, Horst Simon <horst.simon2 at icloud.com> wrote:
> 
> I have postfix login to a file enabled as follow:
> in the main.cf I added:
> 
> maillog_file = /opt/local/var/log/postfix/postfix.log
> 
> and in the master.cf:
> 
> postlog   unix-dgram n  -       n       -       1       postlogd
> 
> Make sure the directory /opt/local/var/log/postfix exists and is writeable vy postfix.
> 
> Horst Simon
> 
>>> On 29 Dec 2023, at 02:54, Ubence Quevedo (thatrat) <thatrat at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> 
>> Hi,
>> 
>> I’ve installed postfix and have configured it similarly to how I have it configured on some Linux systems using this tutorial [https://www.tutorialspoint.com/configure-postfix-with-gmail-on-ubuntu], and when I install and configure postfix in macOS [and make some slight changes because everything is in /opt/local/etc/postfix], mail is not sent.
>> 
>> What bothers me most is that I can’t find the log files for the macports version of postfix.
>> 
>> Can someone point me in the right direction to where I can find them to see why my sending mail isn’t working?
>> 
>> I’m sure I’ll have more questions later, but without the logs, I really am only guessing as to why this might not be working.
>> 
>> -Ubence
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