How to check the mail log?

As you know that using dedicated gives you a lot of advantages with more resources and helps you to handle your website easily. Not only that today if you are having a website and if you have hosted it on the shared hosting environment and now if you are facing some issues related to resources or you face load time or server down then choosing dedicated is one of the best methods where it gives you more features and advantages in your hosting. Using dedicated will also get more flexibility and security in your hosting.

And today most of the people are using the email services on their dedicated. Because at present email plays an important mode of communication between business and its customers. Not only that with the help of email you can also easily create the brand awareness of your business products and services. So today if you are using dedicated hosting server for your website and if you are looking for information on how to check the mail log on your server then here is the solution.

Here is the solution to check the mail log on your server:

Plesk Users

>>> Log into your Plesk SSH or Root access

>>> Follow this path to locate your email logs

/usr/local/psa/var/log/

>>> To view the email log use the following command

tail -f /usr/local/psa/var/log/maillog

>>> To search for a particular string:

This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. /usr/local/psa/var/log/maillog |more

>>> This is how you get the log sequence showing the complete transmission of one piece of mail:

April 10 14:10:45 dv qmail: 1223985219.945231 new msg 153248276

April 10 14:10:45 dv qmail: 1223985219.945231 info msg 153248276: bytes 860 from <> qp 24106 uid 2522

April 10 14:10:45 dv qmail: 1223985219.945231 starting delivery 2: msg 163786382 to local This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

April 10 14:10:45 dv qmail: 1223077819.937835 status: local 1/10 remote 0/20

April 10 14:10:45 dv qmail-local-handlers[24107]: Handlers Filter before-local for qmail started ...

April 10 14:10:45 dv qmail-local-handlers[24107]: from=

April 10 14:10:45 dv qmail-local-handlers[24107]: to=This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

April 10 14:10:45 dv qmail: 1213077819..159866 delivery 2: success: did_0+0+2/

April 10 14:10:45 dv qmail: 1213077819..160087 status: local 0/10 remote 0/20

April 10 14:10:45 dv qmail: 1213077819..160159 end msg 163786382

cPanel Users

>>> Log into your cPanel SSH or Root access

>>> Follow this path to locate your email logs

/var/log/

>>> To view the email log use the following command

less /var/log/maillog

>>> To search for a particular string:

This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. /var/log/exim_mainlog

>>> This is how you get the log sequence showing the complete transmission of one piece of mail:

2010-11-10 11:40:40 1ZthQy-000586-3x <= This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. H=localhost (pyxv-qnqd.testdomain.com) [127.0.0.1]:42112 P=esmtpa A=dovecot_login:This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. S=597 id=This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. T="Hiya!" for This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

2010-11-10 11:40:40 1ZthQy-000586-3x SMTP connection outbound 1446579596 1ZthQy-000586-3x example.com This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

2010-11-10 11:40:40 1ZthQy-000586-3x => This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. R=dkim_lookuphost T=dkim_remote_smtp H=gmail-smtp-in.l.google.com [133.14.243.47] X=TLSv1.2:ECDHE-RSA-C="250 2.0.0 OK 1446579596 fk5si44423567pbd.33 - gsmtp" 22010-11-10 11:40:40 1ZthQy-000586-3x Completed