Mail Administration Guide

Log Level

You can adjust the level of logging for sendmail. Table 3-4shows the levels.

Table 3-4 Log-Level Codes

Code 

Description 

0

No logging 

1

Major problems only; serious system failures and potential security problems 

2

Lost communications (network problems) and protocol failures 

3

Other serious failures 

4

Minor failures 

5

Message collection statistics 

6

Creating of error messages, VRFY and EXPN commands

7

Delivery failures (host or user unknown, and so forth) 

8

Successful deliveries 

9

(Default) Messages deferred (due to a host down, and so forth) 

10

Database expansion (alias, forward, and userdb lookups) 

15

Automatic alias database rebuilds 

20

Logs attempts to run locked queue files 

30

Lost locks 

Refer to the system error logging section in System Administration Guide for more information.