[lug] mail reports based on /var/log/maillog?

[dan radom]

to define a procmail log file add the following to ~/.procmailrc

  LOGFILE=$PMDIR/log

the tool i use most is procmailcount.pl.  i'm sure a google search would find it.  if not let me know and i'll send it to you.

dan

* Neal McBurnett (neal at bcn.boulder.co.us) wrote:
> I'm looking for a tool that can parse /var/log/maillog (the
> place where redhat puts sendmail syslog logging) and produce
> useful reports to help me spot problems, discover how much
> mail I get and send, etc.
> 
> A google search yielded a pointer to
>  http://tit.irk.ru/networking/sendmail/ch26_02.htm
> 
> which told me that I needed to
>  # grep -i statusfile /etc/sendmail.cf  
>  O StatusFile=/var/log/sendmail.st
> 
>  # touch /var/log/sendmail.st
> 
> in order to start collecting some crude statistics that
> /usr/sbin/mailstats can report on.  But they seem pretty crude.
> 
> Much better data is already in my many weeks of rotated
> /var/log/maillog files, as described at
> 
>  http://tit.irk.ru/networking/sendmail/ch26_01.htm
> 
> but that page only provides a very crude shell script to print
> a count of bytes of traffic.
> 
> Surely others have better reporting tools....
> 
> For the future, I see that dan radom <dradom at redback.com> said back on
> Aug 21
> 
>  i prefer the procmail log format over the traditional maillog...plus
>  i've got some procmail perl scripts that do nifty things with my
>  procmail log.
> 
> Copies of those scripts and hints on how to get procmail collecting
> logs for them would also be handy.
> 
> TIA,
> 
> Neal McBurnett <neal at bcn.boulder.co.us>
> http://bcn.boulder.co.us/~neal/
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