Debug / Log CiviMail

[yogibear]

Howdy, I have read a lot of posts here about debugging or logging CiviMail activity to pinpoint issues...

Despite that I am still unclear exactly how to view logs of CiviMail activity.

Could someone please enlighten me what to modify and then exactly where I can see the logged output.

I understand there are three places logging might be enabled:

1) civicrm.settings.php - add the following statement: define( 'CIVICRM_MAIL_LOG' , 1 );

2) /sites/all/modules/civicrm/packages/Mail - smtp.php
change "var $_debug = false;" to "var $_debug = true;"

3) /sites/all/modules/civicrm/packages/Net - SMTP.php
change "var $_debug = false;" to "var $_debug = true;"

Thanking somebody greatly

[Donald Lobo]

1. if u enable the CIVICRM_MAIL_LOG setting, it does not contact the SMTP server. All mails are logged at files/civicrm/upload/mail under various cryptic md5 string file names

2. if the above is disabled, the effect of setting debug should be a lot of messages on your screen

lobo

[yogibear]

I changed "var $_debug = true;" in both files and did a test mailout, but no logging to screen.

Is that logging to screen supposed to happen immediately after I press "Submit Mailing"?

It would be handy if it logged to a file somewhere.

TIA.

[Donald Lobo]

did u disable the mail log setting

for civimail cronjobs you'll see the output when running the cron script

you might want to file a feature request with the PEAR folks to enable logging to a file

lobo

[davej]

1. if u enable the CIVICRM_MAIL_LOG setting, it does not contact the SMTP server. All mails are logged at files/civicrm/upload/mail under various cryptic md5 string file names

In Civi 3.1, mails are logged in files/civicrm/templates_c/en_US/ConfigAndLog/mail .

Beware: if Global Settings -> Outbound Email is set to sendmail rather than SMTP, it seems that CIVICRM_MAIL_LOG is ignored and mails are sent rather than logged.

Dave J

[Piotr Szotkowski]

Beware: if Global Settings -> Outbound Email is set to sendmail rather than SMTP, it seems that CIVICRM_MAIL_LOG is ignored and mails are sent rather than logged.

This was fixed on trunk in r26764 (and, I think, subsequently back-ported where appropriate).

[xcf33]

I'm using the logging and everything looks fine,

However, the problem is that I'm doing testing with about 50,000 mailing sizes and I don't have shell access to go back and delete the mail log folder (Only have FTP access)

Where can I comment out the code that writes the email message to file so I can still observe the database changes but not see files being created?


Thanks.

[davej]

Where can I comment out the code that writes the email message to file so I can still observe the database changes but not see files being created?

According to http://wiki.civicrm.org/confluence/display/CRMDOC/Debugging:

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define('CIVICRM_MAIL_LOG', 1); // writes emails to disk, never sends them. Write to civicrm/upload/mail directory by default
define('CIVICRM_MAIL_LOG', '/dev/null'); // emails are thrown away

Dave J

[xcf33]

Thanks, I guess I wasn't looking, took 12 hours to delete around 200k emails being written to file