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Postfix monitoring setups

Mailinois reads Postfix’s standard log lines, so the work in any setup is getting a copy of those lines to it. Each page below starts from where that setup keeps Postfix’s log, gives the config to send it on, and says plainly what has been run and what hasn’t.

Where Postfix runs Page Run against Mailinois
A Debian or Ubuntu host, with rsyslog or the journal only Postfix on Debian and Ubuntu The agent’s unit, on Debian 13
Docker: boky/postfix or docker-mailserver Postfix in Docker Both, end to end
mailcow A Postfix log dashboard for mailcow The syslog-ng hook, in mailcow’s Postfix image
Kubernetes Postfix on Kubernetes See Kubernetes

Works with is the reference version: RHEL, iRedMail, Mail-in-a-Box and Modoboa too, with links to the source each answer came from.

Use cases covers what Mailinois answers once the lines arrive: deferrals, bounces, blocklists and more.