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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>download that file i put at <A
href="http://sairys.bomb.net/sendmail-stats.tar.gz">http://sairys.bomb.net/sendmail-stats.tar.gz</A>
and strip the ascii stuff from all the print statements at the
bottom.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>create a file called
stat.email.template</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>put the following in it</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>To: <A
href="mailto:your@email.address.com">your@email.address.com</A></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>From: <A
href="mailto:root@your.mailserver.com">root@your.mailserver.com</A></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Subject: Nightly Stats</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>then</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>touch stat.email</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>then make a file called sendstat (chmod
755)</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>#!/bin/sh</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>rm stat.email</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>cat /root/stat.email.template >
stat.email</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>/root/stats.pl >> stat.email</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>sendmail -t < stat.email</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>then setup a cronjob for this to happen every
night.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>What this does is send you detailed stats about
whats going on with your mail server at the time u specified for cronjob to
start.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Includes total emails, viruses,spam as well as how
much mail is in incoming queue and outgoing queue and how many sendmail
processes for outgoing and incoming are currently running.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>PS. You might wanna consider running a forum, im a
developer on OpenBB (<A href="http://www.openbb.net">http://www.openbb.net</A>)
and can help with anything you might need. OBB needs MySQL and PHP. Its fast and
powerful and a great way for us mailscanner junkies to
communicate.</FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>