On Sat, Mar 24, 2001 at 07:57:54PM +0200, Peter Pentchev wrote:
> On Sat, Mar 24, 2001 at 10:52:54AM -0700, Dave Murray wrote:
> > I have trouble with sending messages, intermittently with another
> > list. I use sendmail and my ISP's SMTP. Mutt shows me sending, a
> > copy ends up in record, that's the end of my knowledge. I know that
> > this is the mutt list but perhaps someone here could help. Does
> > sendmail keep a log file? It would help me see if it thinks that
> > it passed it on.
>
> Sendmail logs most transactions via syslog, using the facility 'mail'.
> Usually those end up in /var/log/messages, unless you've redirected
> them somewhere else in /etc/syslog.conf.
>
> G'luck,
> Peter
>
The default under many linux distributions is /var/log/maillog.
Try 'tail -f maillog' for a continuous display of the log file.
A.
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