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Locations of configuration and log files of mojor components

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Postfix

  • on Linux and OpenBSD, Postfix config files are placed under /etc/postfix/.
  • on FreeBSD, Postfix config files are placed under /usr/local/etc/postfix/.

Config files

Main config files:

  • main.cf: contains most configurations.
  • master.cf: contains transport related settings.
  • aliases: aliases for system accounts.
  • helo_access.pcre: PCRE regular expressions of HELO check rules.
  • ldap/*.cf: used to query mail accounts. LDAP backends only.
  • mysql/*.cf: used to query mail accounts. MySQL/MariaDB backends only.
  • pgsql/*.cf: used to query mail accounts. PostgreSQL backend only.

Log files

  • on RHEL/CentOS, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, it's /var/log/maillog.
  • on Debian, Ubuntu, it's /var/log/mail.log.

Dovecot

  • on Linux and OpenBSD, Dovecot config files are placed under /etc/dovecot/.
  • on FreeBSD, Dovecot config files are placed under /usr/local/etc/dovecot/.

Config files

Main config file is dovecot.conf. It contains most configurations.

Addition config files:

  • dovecot-ldap.conf: used to query mail users and passwords. LDAP backends only.
  • dovecot-mysql.conf: used to query mail users and passwords. MySQL/MariaDB backends only.
  • dovecot-pgsql.conf: used to query mail users and passwords. PostgreSQL backend only.
  • dovecot-used-quota.conf: used to store and query real-time per-user mailbox quota.
  • dovecot-share-folder.conf: used to store settings of shared IMAP mailboxes.
  • dovecot-master-users-password: used to store master users/passwords.

Log files

  • /var/log/dovecot.log: main log file.
  • /var/log/dovecot-sieve.log: sieve related log. NOTE: on old iRedMail releases, it's /var/log/sieve.log.
  • /var/log/dovecot-lmtp.log: LMTP related log.

Amavisd

Main config files

  • on RHEL/CentOS: it's /etc/amavisd/amavisd.conf.

  • on Debian/Ubuntu: it's /etc/amavis/conf.d/50-user.

    Debian/Ubuntu have some addition config files under /etc/amavis/conf.d/, but you can always override them in file /etc/amavis/conf.d/50-user. When we mention amavisd.conf in other tutorials, it means 50-user on Debian/Ubuntu.

  • on FreeBSD: it's /usr/local/etc/amavisd.conf.

  • on OpenBSD: it's /etc/amavisd.conf.

Log files

Amavisd is configured to log to Postfix log file by iRedMail.