Postfix and MailScanner logger

Jason Ede J.Ede at birchenallhowden.co.uk
Fri Nov 6 13:15:14 GMT 2009


I've been thinking of writing something very similar for use here to bring together from all our mail servers with an additional field of receiving server name...  Any chance can post to the list if you manage to do this?

> -----Original Message-----
> From: mailscanner-bounces at lists.mailscanner.info [mailto:mailscanner-
> bounces at lists.mailscanner.info] On Behalf Of Alvaro Marín
> Sent: 06 November 2009 10:37
> To: MailScanner discussion
> Subject: Re: Postfix and MailScanner logger
> 
> Alex Broens escribió:
> > On 11/6/2009 11:21 AM, Antony Stone wrote:
> >> On Friday 06 November 2009 09:53, Alvaro Marín wrote:
> >>
> >>> Hi,
> >>>
> >>> I'm searching for a logger tool to store in a MySQL table Postfix
> and
> >>> MailScanner's logs.
> >>> The idea is to save in a database values like:
> >>>
> >>> - sender IP
> >>> - sender address
> >>> - destination address
> >>> - if the mail was blocked by RBLs, rate-limit...
> >>> - the result of SpamAssassin test (from MailScanner)
> >>> - the result of MailScanner process (deliver, deliver+header or
> delete)
> >>
> >>> Anyone knows a tool like this or I've to do it myself? :)
> >>
> >> Have you considered http://mailwatch.sourceforge.net/ ?
> >
> > mailwatch only stores data processed by MailScanner and not MTA data,
> > Sendmail, Postfix,etc data.
> >
> > rsyslog or syslog-ng seem to closer to what Alvaro is looking for.
> 
> Yes, as you've said, Mailwatch is only for MailScanner.
> 
> Anyway, I think that I have soo much traffic to have a solution like
> rsyslog/syslog-ng (in real time) or MW. I'm searching for a script that
> parses the logs (each hour, for example) and stores SMTP/MailScanner
> data in MySQL; then a web interface in PHP.
> 
> I think that I'll have to program it myself :)
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> Regards,
> 
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