[Savannah-cvs] [197] MailSystem: mention exim4-to-posfix change

[assafgordon]

Revision: 197
          
http://svn.sv.gnu.org/viewvc/?view=rev&root=administration&revision=197
Author:   agn
Date:     2016-07-06 23:47:49 +0000 (Wed, 06 Jul 2016)
Log Message:
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MailSystem: mention exim4-to-posfix change
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M    sviki/MailSystem.mdwn

Modified Paths:
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    trunk/sviki/MailSystem.mdwn

Modified: trunk/sviki/MailSystem.mdwn
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--- trunk/sviki/MailSystem.mdwn 2016-06-29 20:26:56 UTC (rev 196)
+++ trunk/sviki/MailSystem.mdwn 2016-07-06 23:47:49 UTC (rev 197)
@@ -102,7 +102,7 @@
 Mail mostly happens from frontend.  The PHP there would send the email.
 If you have a received message in hand, you can see the trail of servers
 in the Received: headers.  It starts from PHP.  It goes from there to
-/usr/sbin/sendmail (exim4 on those systems) and then out to
+/usr/sbin/sendmail (postfix on those systems) and then out to
 eggs.gnu.org, then to lists.gnu.org and out to the mailing list for
 delivery.
 
@@ -110,11 +110,36 @@
 log an error to the frontend:/var/log/apache2/error.log file.
 
 All of the mail status should be logged to
-frontend:/var/log/exim4/mainlog.  When a message is sent you should see
+`frontend:/var/log/mail.*`.  When a message is sent you should see
 the transaction logged there.
 
 Logs are rotated.  If you are looking back into the past you will need
-to look through `mainlog.1` and older to find the transaction.
+to look through the various dated log files to find the transaction, e.g.:
 
+    frontend:/var/log# ls -lhog mail.*
+    -rw-r----- 1    0 May  8 06:25 mail.err
+    -rw-r----- 1 1.3K May  7 06:25 mail.err-20160507.gz
+    -rw-r----- 1 1.7K May  7 06:31 mail.err-20160508
+    -rw-r----- 1 600K Jul  6 23:26 mail.info
+    -rw-r----- 1 122K Jun 12 06:25 mail.info-20160612.gz
+    -rw-r----- 1 114K Jun 19 06:25 mail.info-20160619.gz
+    -rw-r----- 1 117K Jun 26 06:25 mail.info-20160626.gz
+    -rw-r----- 1 1.2M Jul  3 06:25 mail.info-20160703
+    -rw-r----- 1 600K Jul  6 23:26 mail.log
+    -rw-r----- 1 122K Jun 12 06:25 mail.log-20160612.gz
+    -rw-r----- 1 114K Jun 19 06:25 mail.log-20160619.gz
+    -rw-r----- 1 117K Jun 26 06:25 mail.log-20160626.gz
+    -rw-r----- 1 1.2M Jul  3 06:25 mail.log-20160703
+    -rw-r----- 1    0 Jun 21 06:25 mail.warn
+    -rw-r----- 1  211 May 22 05:46 mail.warn-20160522.gz
+    -rw-r----- 1  208 May 28 10:13 mail.warn-20160529.gz
+    -rw-r----- 1  119 Jun 12 00:48 mail.warn-20160612.gz
+    -rw-r----- 1  114 Jun 20 12:23 mail.warn-20160621
+
 You can see messages pending for delivery in the mail queue with the
 `mailq` command on frontend.
+
+NOTE: On May 7th 2016 the mail system was changed from exim4 to
+postfix (see
+<http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/savannah-hackers-public/2016-05/msg00007.html>,
+<http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/savannah-hackers-public/2016-06/msg00030.html>).