[Solved] syslog mail facility not working

[petterg]

I've installed syslog-ng, postfix, dovecot and dspam. For some reason nothing show up in /var/log/mail.
Some entries show up in /var/log/messages, so I guess the services communicate with syslog. Where do I start to debug the mail facility?

[hdcg]

Hi,

check your syslog-ng.conf file.

To support /var/log/mail there should be
a destination statement pointing to /var/log/mail
a filter statement to select all mail facility messages
a log statement utilizing both.

See the /var/log/warnings definitions for an example.

See man master and master.cf for how to set the facility for postfix.

Best Regards,
Holger

[petterg]

Thanks. You were spot on - a typo in syslog-ng.conf