Rsyslog not forwarding specific log file to remote server

I am going insane trying to get rsyslog to send a specific logfile to a remote server over UDP.
This is the rsyslog.conf file for the sending server:

#  /etc/rsyslog.conf    Configuration file for rsyslog.
#
#                       For more information see
#                       /usr/share/doc/rsyslog-doc/html/rsyslog_conf.html
#
#  Default logging rules can be found in /etc/rsyslog.d/50-default.conf


#################
#### MODULES ####
#################    

$ModLoad imuxsock # provides support for local system logging
$ModLoad imklog   # provides kernel logging support (previously done by rklogd)
#$ModLoad immark  # provides --MARK-- message capability
$ModLoad imfile   # provides imfile module    

# provides UDP syslog reception
#$ModLoad imudp
#$UDPServerRun 514

# provides TCP syslog reception
#$ModLoad imtcp
#$InputTCPServerRun 514


###########################
#### GLOBAL DIRECTIVES ####
###########################

#
# Use traditional timestamp format.
# To enable high precision timestamps, comment out the following line.
#
$ActionFileDefaultTemplate RSYSLOG_TraditionalFileFormat

# Filter duplicated messages
$RepeatedMsgReduction on

#
# Set the default permissions for all log files.
#
$FileOwner syslog
$FileGroup adm
$FileCreateMode 0640
$DirCreateMode 0755
$Umask 0022
$PrivDropToUser syslog
$PrivDropToGroup adm

#
# Where to place spool files
#
$WorkDirectory /var/spool/rsyslog

#
# Include all config files in /etc/rsyslog.d/    
#
$IncludeConfig /etc/rsyslog.d/*.conf

I then added *.* @remoteserverIP at the end of /etc/rsyslog.d/50-default.conf.
After that I created the file /etc/rsyslog.d/test.conf with the following content:

$ModLoad imfile
$InputFileName /var/log/test
$InputFileTag test
$InputFileStateFile stat-test
$InputFileSeverity info
InputRunFileMonitor
*.* @remoteserverIP

finally I created /var/log/test and did chown syslog; chgrp adm;service rsyslog restart
My server is listening on UDP 514

tcpdump udp on sending server reveals that the logs are not being sent after doing cat "test" >> /var/log/test
logger -t test "My little pony" sends the data over UDP, is seen by tcpdump and appears on my remote server.
On sending server:

rsyslogd -v
rsyslogd 5.8.6, compiled with:
FEATURE_REGEXP:                         Yes
FEATURE_LARGEFILE:                      No
GSSAPI Kerberos 5 support:              Yes
FEATURE_DEBUG (debug build, slow code): No
32bit Atomic operations supported:      Yes
64bit Atomic operations supported:      Yes
Runtime Instrumentation (slow code):    No

Does anyone know what I am doing wrong?
Thanks for the help!