On Thu, Nov 20, 2003 at 06:27:40PM -0800, Pete Nesbitt wrote: > On November 20, 2003 02:36 pm, Ed Wilts wrote: > > On Thu, Nov 20, 2003 at 06:30:02AM -0800, Pete Nesbitt wrote: > > > On November 19, 2003 09:11 pm, Pete Nesbitt wrote: > > > .... > so syslog.conf may be causing probs. Mine has a (default) line in it: > # Log all the mail messages in one place. > mail.* /var/log/maillog > > if you changed that to: > mail.crit it should only log messages of critical or higher, so regular pop's > would (should:) not get logged. > or I suppose you could change the target file there as well. > > Just to clearify though, you don't want to log any mail messages? I want to log all the mail messages but not the pop3 service connections. I still want all the sendmail messages logged. > Can you confirm you tried in pop3: > log_type = FILE /tmp/mail (or whatever file) > > This should not be that tough should it. I did that. It created the file but continued writing to maillog anyway. You're right - it shouldn't be that tough, but it sure seems to be. It's quite likely that I can not solve this without modifying the ipop server to change where it logs to. -- Ed Wilts, Mounds View, MN, USA mailto:ewilts@xxxxxxxxxx Member #1, Red Hat Community Ambassador Program -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list