1. How should I start qmail, smtp and pop to create the right kind of logs? First make sure you have the log directories: mkdir /var/log/qmail mkdir /var/log/pop3 mkdir /var/log/smtp chown qmaill /var/log/qmail chown qmaill /var/log/pop3 chown qmaill /var/log/smtp Then start up qmail env - PATH="/var/qmail/bin:/usr/local/bin" \ qmail-start ./Maildir/ | /usr/local/bin/setuidgid qmaill \ /usr/local/bin/multilog t n100 s1000000 /var/log/qmail & env - PATH="/var/qmail/bin:/usr/local/bin" \ tcpserver -v -H -R -l$HOSTNAME -c200 0 110 /var/qmail/bin/qmail-popup \ $HOSTNAME \ /home/vpopmail/bin/vchkpw /var/qmail/bin/qmail-pop3d Maildir 2>&1 | \ /usr/local/bin/setuidgid qmaill \ /usr/local/bin/multilog t n100 s1000000 /var/log/pop3 & env - PATH="/var/qmail/bin:/usr/local/bin" \ tcpserver -v -H -R -l$HOSTNAME -x /home/vpopmail/etc/tcp.smtp.cdb \ -c200 -u8002 -g8001 0 25 fixcrio /var/qmail/bin/qmail-smtpd 2>&1 | \ /usr/local/bin/setuidgid qmaill \ /usr/local/bin/multilog t n100 s1000000 /var/log/smtp & 2. My logs are not in the places above, what should I do? Edit qmail.mrtg.cfg and changes the lines like: Target[messages]: `/usr/local/bin/qmailmrtg7 m /var/log/qmail` To point to your log directory. In the above line the log is in /var/log/qmail, you might have it in /var/log/qmail/qmail-send.