Aigor79
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Mac OS X

Q: MaOS Sierra postfix doesn't write log

Now for me it's impossible to read any log about smtp activity. /var/log/mail.log is missing but Postfix works well

Mac mini (Late 2014), iOS 10.0.2

Posted on Oct 1, 2016 6:26 AM

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Q: MaOS Sierra postfix doesn't write log

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  • by Arne Rolf Heier,Helpful

    Arne Rolf Heier Arne Rolf Heier Oct 16, 2016 1:22 AM in response to Aigor79
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    Oct 16, 2016 1:22 AM in response to Aigor79

    Apple have a new log system in Sierra. It is not using the log files or asl.

    The logs are in memory or a log db.

     

    log -- Access system wide log messages created by os_log, os_trace and other logging systems.

     

    You can read the smtpd log from terminal with this command.

    log show --start "2016-10-16"  --end "2016-10-17" --predicate  'process == "smtpd"' --debug

  • by Aigor79,

    Aigor79 Aigor79 Oct 16, 2016 1:28 AM in response to Arne Rolf Heier
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    Oct 16, 2016 1:28 AM in response to Arne Rolf Heier

    Thanks for your reply.

    Could you confirm that we can't have a real time log now?

    Now I have a report like this:

    Skipping info messages, pass --info to include.
Filtering the log data using "process == "smtpd""
Timestamp                       Thread     Type        Activity             PID    
 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Log      - Default:          0, Info:                0, Debug:             0, Error:          0, Fault:          0
Activity - Create:           0, Transition:          0, Actions:           0

    Thanks