How to check the logs for incoming messages?

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Hi Guys. How do we check the logs for incoming messages?

I found this topic

and tried command nano /var/log/mail.log

in nano I use CTRL+_ and then CTRL_V to go to the last line.

by looking at the logs line by line I wanted to know if an email is received by looking at the log line.

Can someone share a sample log entry that says the email is received and its in the inbox of the MIAB user.

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You can see mail received, just not it’s contents that way. What you would be looking for is something along the lines of

delivery 2: success: something something

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Thanks @murgero

How about an incoming message successfully delivred to a MIAB user?

What does the log line looks like for an incoming message?

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It would look similar. Same file. You can also use this method to read the mailbox:

(You maildir for this would be /home/user-data/mail/username/ in this case)

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Learning Maildir.

Thanks for sharing @murgero

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Just thinking - if you’re looking for messages being delivered to a specific mailbox or coming from a specific address you could try the following:

cat /var/log/mail.log | grep <email address>
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As a modification:

cat /var/log/mail.log | grep -i "username@example.com"

The “-i” means case-insensitive. so if an email is capitalized on one end and not the other, it should show regardless.

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