Mail Logs (OT)

[Peter Russell]

For anyone else who may be keen, awstats does a pretty great job of 
capturing and storing stats and i have had it running for ages and 
completely forgot about it, launch the GUI to awstats and voila, 12+ 
months of details mail stats...no spam stats but thats cool mailwatch 
has all the spam stats.

Glenn Steen wrote:
> On 13/10/06, Drew Marshall <drew at technologytiger.net> wrote:
>> On Fri, October 13, 2006 07:27, Peter Russell wrote:
>> > Hi there, i have mailscanner, postfix, and mailwatch.
>> >
>> > What i would like to be able to easily see is all of the mail stats.
>> > Because we block a lot of mail at the MTA using recipient maps we have
>> > heaps of stats in the maillog that dont make it to mailwatch.
>> >
>> > Is there any tool that will show me all of the spam, high spam, 
>> viruses,
>> > rejected by MTA and delivered type stats?
>>
>> Have a look at pflogsumm http://jimsun.linxnet.com/postfix_contrib.html
> 
> I use this (in conjunction with MailWatch one get a good grip on
> things). It doesn't handle the HOLD construct very well, and if you
> (like me) have maillogs split into separate info, warning and error
> files then you'll need look at some other logfile (that has them all
> in sequence) like syslog...
> Other than that, it works very well. I post the logs through a very
> ugly/simplistic php hack, so the PHB/windoze disabled collegues can
> look at it too:-).  I run a daily and a weekly summary from cron that
> dump the textfiles into the published directory... And the hack just
> display them. Pretty much like the CGI you can find through Jimsun....
> I just missed it:-). Can probably clean it a bit and share upon
> request.
> 
>> There are others listed at http://www.postfix.org/addon.html which might
>> also give you the details you want.
> 
> I looked at a lot of those (anteater, isoqlog etc etc) and most work
> pretty badly when taking the HOLD thing into account. And pflogsumm
> gives the best (most relevant) results IMO.
>