Monitor daemon for exim4 logs
Hi,
I have Debian sid running on a standalone laptop. exim4 is my MTA, Yahoo the
smarthost, and fetchmail pulls mails from Yahoo and Gmail via POP3.
Today I had the unpleasant surprise that Yahoo changed the canonical name of
its SMTP relay server, and mails I wrote during the day were bounced back by
Yahoo. As I map my login name to my Yahoo account name via
/etc/email-addresses, exim4 kept trying to relay them to Yahoo, bounce back,
same story... Result: all mails were frozen in exim4. After changing Yahoo's
canonical name in /etc/exim4/passwd.client, I forced delivery of the frozen
messages and had hell to edit one by one, to remove exim4's headers, and
resend them.
I realized that I should be monitoring exim4 logs for errors, so that I'd know
when a message is frozen.
Would anybody have recommendations of lightweight monitors for exim4 logs,
something appropriate to a standalone machine with a single user ?
Thanks for your attention
Paulo
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