Postfix monitoring use cases
Each page starts from a question someone asks about a Postfix server, shows what Postfix logs for it, and the search, alert or check in Mailinois that answers it.
| Question | Page |
|---|---|
| Why is this mail still in the queue? | Why is Postfix deferring mail? |
| Which addresses failed for good, and why? | Tracking Postfix bounces |
| Is there something better than grep and pflogsumm? | A Postfix log analyser that follows each message |
| Is our sending IP on a blocklist? Is our SPF right? | Blocklist and DNS monitoring for a mail server |
| A customer says the sign-in code never came. Did it? | Tracing app email through Postfix |
| We send for twenty clients. Can each see only theirs? | Many client sites on one Postfix relay |
How to get the logs out of a particular setup (Debian or Ubuntu, Docker, mailcow, Kubernetes) is under setups. The quick start runs Mailinois locally with made-up traffic, if you’d rather click around first.