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Mail_Log_To_MiscEvents

Parameter: Mail_Log_To_MiscEvents
Short description: Routes router/mailbox-related events that normally go to 'Mail Routing Events' additionally/exclusively to 'Miscellaneous Events' — useful when chronologically correlating mail issues with other events.

Profile

Parameter
Mail_Log_To_MiscEvents
Category
Mail / Router (logging)
Available since
At least 11.0.1 (HCL documentation)
GUI equivalent
According to HCL, no GUI equivalent.
Possible values
0 = router decides · 1 = all mail events also in Misc Events
Default
None — without an entry, mail events are not displayed in the Misc Events view.

Description

According to HCL product documentation:
Determines whether all mail event messages are displayed in the Miscellaneous Events view of the log file.
0 - The router determines whether to log messages to the Mail Events view, the Miscellaneous Events view, or to both views. This is also true if this variable is not defined.
1 - The router ensures that all messages are logged to the Miscellaneous Events view. If a message is typically logged only to the Mail Events view, it would now be logged to both the Miscellaneous Events view and the Mail Events view.
To prevent logging to the Domino Console, the NOTES.INI variable MailLogToEventsOnly can be set to a value of 1. There is no NOTES.INI setting to prevent logging to the Miscellaneous Events view.
In normal operation, a mail event ends up either in the Mail Events view, the Misc Events view, or in both — depending on internal router logic. With Mail_Log_To_MiscEvents=1, it is additionally enforced that every mail event message is guaranteed to also appear in the Misc Events view of the log file (log.nsf).

Example configuration

Mail_Log_To_MiscEvents=1
With this setting, all mail-related log entries additionally appear in the Misc Events view, which makes diagnostics easier when you do not search or filter the Mail Events view.

Notes & pitfalls

  • Related parameter: MailLogToEventsOnly=1 suppresses logging to the Domino console (but there is no notes.ini toggle to prevent Misc Events logging).
  • On production servers, the Misc Events view grows significantly with =1 — useful primarily for temporary diagnostics.
  • According to HCL, there is no GUI equivalent.

Sources (HCL Product Documentation)