Easy Sendmail Log Question

enmtx

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Where can I find the log that will tell me if a message I sent was recieved by another mail server.

Here is the situation... a person who is using my mail server said they sent an email at xxx time on xxx date but was not recieved by the recipiant. I would like to see if their server even recieved this mail or where it is being hung up at. Thanks - Ian.

I'm on Redhat 7.3 running Sendmail.
 
Standard location is /var/log/maillog, but who knows where Red Hat puts stuff like that...Your best bet is to grep for "accepted for delivery" then grep the output of that for the receiving address.

You'll see something like this (addresses removed):

Mar 16 00:39:36 just sm-mta[3404]: i2G6dMH1003402: to=<[email protected]>, ctladdr=<sender@host> (1013/1013), delay=00:00:08, xdelay=00:00:06, mailer=esmtp, pri=30507, relay=relay2.cso.uiuc.edu. [128.174.5.120], dsn=2.0.0, stat=Sent (i2G6dZPt003300 Message accepted for delivery)
 
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