Enabling and Viewing the Mail Server Log File

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Posted: 20 Apr 2001

Version: iChain 1.5

We've had some inquiries about how to enable logging for the mail server. Here's what you do:

Access the URL of the ICS server on which you installed the iChain upgrades to launch the ICS browser-based adminstration tool.
For example, http://xx.xx.xx.xx:1959/appliance/config.html
where xx.xx.xx.xx is the IP address.
Click Cache > Web Server Accelerator > Modify.
Select Mail Server.
Check the Enable Indexed Format Logging check box.

Here is what you can find in the mail server log file:

Keyword---MAIL. If the Combine Log Files option was selected, the keyword is at the beginning of each mail proxy audit log line.
Date.
Time.
Source IP address.
Destination IP address.
User---Typeless NDS? name or IP address of user.
Protocol---Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP) or Post Office Protocol 3 (POP3).
Status of the SMTP or POP3 request, such as Success, ACL check failure, Spool creation error, Failed connection, Spool size limitation, Protocol and transport failure, and Resource allocation failure.
Command---SMTP or POP3 command used.
Source domain---Domain Name System (DNS) domain name (for SMTP use only).
Recipients---First 256 bytes of a comma-separated list in user@domain format (for SMTP use only).
Process step---Examples of process steps, include Incoming, Spool processing, and Forwarding (for SMTP use only).

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