MAILsweeper can be configured to write four types of log. These are:
The usual method for configuring the MAILsweeper logs is to manually edit the appropriate configuration section(s), found in the logging configuration file, LOGGING.CFG.
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For full details on the MAILsweeper logs and how they can be configured, see the appropriate logging sections, on page 6-6 and page 7-109. |
MAILsweeper for SMTP provides an additional facility which allows you to configure certain logging details via the MAILsweeper Console icon, found in the Control Panel.
Double click on the MAILsweeper Console icon to display a MAILsweeper dialog box with several tabs, as shown below.
Click on the Logging tab to access the logging configuration options.
Using this dialog box you can:
Enabling/disabling the MAILsweeper logs
To enabled or disable the MAILsweeper logs:
The information
supplied is subsequently used to update the [Logging]
section, found in the logging configuration file, LOGGING.CFG.
[Logging] SystemLog=0 ;MessageLog=1 ;DebugLog=2 EventLog=3
In this example, the message log and debug log are disabled (as indicated by a semi-colon at the beginning of the line), while the system log and event log are enabled. For more details see page 7-113.
Controlling the information written to the MAILsweeper logs
The level of information written to each of the MAILsweeper logs can be controlled via the Logging Level area of the MAILsweeper dialog box, shown on page 2-69.
The information
entered is subsequently used to update the MaxLevel
directive, found in the configuration section for the log file
type, that is, [SystemLog]
, [MessageLog]
,[DebugLog]
or
[EventLog]
. The sections are found in the logging
configuration file, LOGGING.CFG.
[SystemLog]FileRootName=C:\MSW\LOG\DT%s.LOG
NameType=Date StreamType=SystemFileMaxLevel=Brief
In this example, the logging level written to the System log is Brief, that is only the overall results of processing.
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For more
details on the MaxLevel directive and the
other directives that can be used in the logging
configuration section, see page 7-113. |
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