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Mail Log (EN)

Logs every email your Joomla website sends — with trigger, recipient and delivery status · Version 1.4.0 · Stand 04.10.2026

Mail Log at a glance

Mail Log records every email your Joomla website sends through the Joomla mailer. For each messag...

Requirements and installation

Mail Log is installed as one package that deploys the component and both plugins together. This p...

Free version and Pro version

Mail Log comes in two versions: the Free version and the Pro version. Both are built from the sam...

Download key and updates

Mail Log receives updates through the official Joomla update mechanism. To allow your website to ...

Quick start: the dashboard

Mail Log works immediately after the installation. This page shows how to produce the first entry...

The log list

The log list shows all logged mails. You reach it through the menu item Mail Log in the sidebar o...

Looking at an entry

Clicking an entry — on the time, the subject or the view button — opens the detail view with ever...

Resending a mail

Mail Log can deliver a logged message again. That is useful when a mail got lost, ended up in spa...

Body storage, encryption and sensitive content

How much of the message text Mail Log stores is up to you. This page explains the storage modes, ...

Attachments

On request Mail Log keeps the attachments of sent mails, so that you can later trace exactly what...

Log rules and display rules

Mail Log has two kinds of rules that are easy to confuse but do very different things. Both are f...

Notifications when delivery fails

Mail Log can warn you actively when a delivery fails — so you learn about a mail problem without ...

Configuration reference

All settings are reached through the Options button at the top right of every Mail Log view. This...

Maintenance: scheduled tasks

Mail Log comes with maintenance tasks that run through the Joomla task scheduler. They keep the d...

Permissions, export and privacy

Mail Log stores potentially sensitive communication data. This page sums up who may do what, what...

Common questions and troubleshooting

Answers to common questions and the quickest routes to fixing things. No mails are logged at all ...

Domain health

Whether your e-mail arrives is often decided not in Joomla but in the DNS of your domain. If the ...

Queue: retrying failed sends (Pro)

Pro version. This feature is part of the Pro version of Mail Log. What the Free version does is...

GDPR information and erasure (Pro)

Pro version. This feature is part of the Pro version of Mail Log. What the Free version does is...

The periodic report (Pro)

Pro version. This feature is part of the Pro version of Mail Log. What the Free version does is...

Backup send route (Pro)

Pro version. This feature is part of the Pro version of Mail Log. What the Free version does is...

Second alert channel (Pro)

Pro version. This feature is part of the Pro version of Mail Log. What the Free version does is...

Send routes (Pro)

Pro version. This feature is part of the Pro version of Mail Log. What the Free version does is...

Return channel: what comes back when a mail does not arrive (Pro)

Pro version. This feature belongs to the Pro version of Mail Log. What the free version can do ...

Suppression list (Pro)

Pro version. This feature belongs to the Pro version of Mail Log. What the free version can do ...

DMARC: who sends in your name (Pro)

Pro version. This feature belongs to the Pro version of Mail Log. What the Free version does is...

DKIM signing (Pro)

Pro version. This feature belongs to the Pro version of Mail Log. What the Free version does is...

Changelog

This changelog lists every released version of Mail Log, the most recent first. This page is g...