Jul 12th, 2010
Exim Message Reception and Delivery Log files
Exim Message Reception and Delivery log files
Exim writes three different logs, referred to as the main log, the reject log, and the panic log.
/var/log/exim/mainlog (FreeBSD)
The main log records the arrival of each message and each delivery in a single line in each case. The format is as compact as possible, in an attempt to keep down the size of log files. Two-character flag sequences make it easy to pick out these lines. A number of other events are recorded in the main log. Some of them are optional, in which case the log_selector option controls whether they are included or not. A Perl script called eximstats, which does simple analysis of main log files, is provided in the Exim distribution.
The above log files receives an entry every time a message is received or delivered.
Rejections based on ACLs/Policies: Receives an entry every time a message is rejected based on either ACLs or other policies (for example, aliases configured to :fail:)
/var/log/exim/rejectlog (FreeBSD)
The reject log records information from messages that are rejected as a result of a configuration option (that is, for policy reasons).
