Questions on postfix

[Horst Simon]

You should have only the postfix.log file and don’t worry about the warning not owned by postfix on the .turd_postfix file.

I think you use the macOS mail command which will not use macports postfix. Check the /opt/local/bin directory for the mail or mailx command, which you should use.

instead of just using mail,  use the full path /opt/local/bin/mail or /opt/local/bin/mailx.

Horst

> On 29 Dec 2023, at 10:50, Ubence Quevedo (thatrat) <thatrat at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Huh, I’m only getting a /opt/local/var/log/postfix/postfix.log generated:
> uquevedo at ubence-mini-wired ~ % tree /opt/local/var/log
> /opt/local/var/log
> └── postfix
>     └── postfix.log
> 
> 2 directories, 1 file
> 
> With the following contents [which I fixed a few things and restarted the service]:
> uquevedo at ubence-mini-wired ~ % cat /opt/local/var/log/postfix/postfix.log
> Dec 28 14:24:27 ubence-mini-wired postfix/postsuper[31269]: warning: bogus file name: maildrop/.turd_postfix
> Dec 28 14:24:27 ubence-mini-wired postfix/postfix-script[31284]: warning: not owned by _postfix: /opt/local/var/lib/postfix/./.turd_postfix
> Dec 28 14:24:27 ubence-mini-wired postfix/postfix-script[31290]: warning: not owned by _postfix: /opt/local/var/spool/postfix/public/.turd_postfix
> Dec 28 14:24:27 ubence-mini-wired postfix/postfix-script[31295]: starting the Postfix mail system
> Dec 28 14:24:27 ubence-mini-wired postfix/master[31297]: daemon started -- version 3.8.3, configuration /opt/local/etc/postfix
> Dec 28 14:26:05 ubence-mini-wired postfix/postfix-script[31400]: stopping the Postfix mail system
> Dec 28 14:26:07 ubence-mini-wired postfix/postsuper[31451]: warning: bogus file name: maildrop/.turd_postfix
> Dec 28 14:26:07 ubence-mini-wired postfix/postfix-script[31471]: warning: not owned by _postfix: /opt/local/var/spool/postfix/public/.turd_postfix
> Dec 28 14:26:07 ubence-mini-wired postfix/postfix-script[31476]: starting the Postfix mail system
> Dec 28 14:26:07 ubence-mini-wired postfix/master[31478]: daemon started -- version 3.8.3, configuration /opt/local/etc/postfix
> Dec 28 14:27:07 ubence-mini-wired postfix/postfix-script[31549]: stopping the Postfix mail system
> Dec 28 14:27:09 ubence-mini-wired postfix/postsuper[31601]: warning: bogus file name: maildrop/.turd_postfix
> Dec 28 14:27:09 ubence-mini-wired postfix/postfix-script[31625]: starting the Postfix mail system
> Dec 28 14:27:09 ubence-mini-wired postfix/master[31627]: daemon started -- version 3.8.3, configuration /opt/local/etc/postfix
> 
> I don’t get anything from running the following command:
> echo "Postfix setting test" | mail -s "Hello Postfix" "thatrat at gmail.com”
> 
> Should I be getting the send attempt in the above log file?  Or should l be looking somewhere else?
> 
> -Ubence
> 
> On Dec 28, 2023, at 3:26 PM, Horst Simon <horst.simon2 at icloud.com> wrote:
> 
> You should with this logging you should get the information in your postfix log as in mail.log, this is what I get.
> 
> Sent from my iPhone
> 
>>> 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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