On 5 Dec 2018, at 07:34, Bill Cole <postfixlists-070...@billmail.scconsult.com> wrote: > On 2 Dec 2018, at 20:31, James Brown wrote: > >> I’m trying to set up a new mail server on macOS Mojave and it almost works. >> Dovecot for IMAP is working. > > This is a bad idea. Mojave (like High Sierra and Sierra before it) is unfit > for server duty due to the intentional mangling of logging by Apple. Without > proper logs, detecting subtle problems is difficult and troubleshooting any > blatant problem like this is impossible.
Apple's logging is not mangled, it is simply using a different logging method. All the information is there, it's just harder (well, harder for me) to get to. However, you can easily do some pretty complex queries against it (as I understand it). But I thought we were talking about Apple Mail.app *sending* mail? > You can get something like a proper mail log by running this command > persistently (i.e. using launchd or batch or whatever else works...) > > log stream --info --predicate 'senderImagePath CONTAINS "postfix"' --style > syslog >> /var/log/mail.log > > That will give you useful information in a standard-ish format in > /var/log/mail.log. > > Without such logging, it is infeasible to troubleshoot your problem. Well, it is feasible because you can query the logs anytime you want (using collect will even generate a log file for your query across the whole logging system without having to go searching trough many files). That said, I don't use my Macs as servers. postfix runs on FreeBSD. Apache runs on FreeBSD. MySQL runs on FreeBSD. Etc. # log show --info --start "2018-12-06 16:00:00" --end "2018-12-06 16:45:00" --predicate 'senderImagePath CONTAINS "sshd" AND messageType=info' --style syslog Filtering the log data using "senderImagePath CONTAINS "sshd" AND logType == 1" Timestamp (process)[PID] 2018-12-06 16:17:28.311749-0700 localhost sshd[1649]: Connection closed by 130.162.96.208 port 18696 [preauth] 2018-12-06 16:20:14.692208-0700 localhost sshd[1822]: Did not receive identification string from 63.143.42.244 port 10643 2018-12-06 16:25:14.528760-0700 localhost sshd[2100]: Did not receive identification string from 63.143.42.244 port 17916 2018-12-06 16:30:14.586075-0700 localhost sshd[2378]: Did not receive identification string from 63.143.42.244 port 33134 -- A bartender is just a pharmacist with a limited inventory.
