This module writes a line for each sent or received message to a log file. Each line mentions the sender's JID and the recipient's JID, and also the message type (e.g., "normal", "chat", or "groupchat"). Carbon copies are marked as such. The log lines look similar to this one:

2014-05-25 11:55:04 [outgoing, normal] dan@example.com/Foo -> eve@example.net/Bar

After log rotation, you can execute the following command in order to tell mod_message_log to reopen the log file:

ejabberdctl reopen_log

Configuration

In order to use this module, add the following lines to the modules section of your ejabberd.yml file:

modules:
  mod_message_log:
    filename: "/path/to/ejabberd-message.log"

If the filename option is set to auto, it will be set to the default ejabberd log path, with the file name "message.log". The filename option takes as default value auto.