Extensions
Mail Log keeps Joomla mail activity in the administrator
Mail Log adds an administrator-side record of emails sent through Joomla, including failed sends and selected message details.
Email troubleshooting and accountability come up when a site sends password resets, order notices, contact messages or other automated mail but nobody can tell what was attempted. Joomla's mailer handles sending and can report transport errors to the calling process, but core Joomla does not provide a general administrator inbox or a persistent, searchable audit trail of every message and its recipients. Joomla's action-log features cover recorded user and administrator actions, not a complete mail archive.
Sites usually handle this with server or mail-provider logs, application-specific logging, or a template and component workflow where only a particular form or transaction is tracked. A mail-log extension goes further by observing mail sent through Joomla's mailer rather than requiring each component to implement its own record. According to the listing, Mail Log can store failures with the mail server's error, apply storage rules, limit sensitive content, alert administrators, export CSV, show volume and failure statistics, and resend messages. Those are additions to Joomla core, not replacements for the mail transport or proof that a message reached an inbox.
It is aimed at administrators of sites with several extensions sending important mail, support teams investigating missing notifications, and organisations that need a local audit trail. A small brochure site with little automated mail, or a team already satisfied with provider-side logs, may have no reason to add it.
The listing marks Mail Log as a free download from Norbert Graup, in the directory's mail log section, and lists Joomla 6 compatibility. It shows two other extensions by the developer but no reviews for this one. Before installing, check the exact permission model, retention and cleanup defaults, what “delivery succeeded” means, the encryption and attachment handling in practice, and whether the claimed resend safeguards fit your privacy policy. The listing does not state broader Joomla-version support, resource requirements, or the detailed configuration and update history.
Listed on the Joomla Extensions Directory.