On December 22, 2007 05:47:56 am Jeff Santos wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I posted a question earlier, but I guess I was not clear.
>
> I have a firewall running OpenBSD 4.2 and SPAMD to block spams.
> I would like to know how many legitimate email messages SPAMD
> is letting in. The default spamd setup that comes in pf.conf is
>
> no rdr on $ext_if proto tcp from <spamd-white> to any port smtp
> rdr pass on $ext_if proto tcp from any to any port smtp \
>        -> 127.0.0.1 port spamd
>
> So I thought of using 'pfctl -vsn'. In the output of this command,
> one of the values is the accumulated number of evaluations of
> each rule. So my question is can I assume the number of
> evaluations of the rule
> 'no rdr pass on $ext_if proto tcp from <spamd-white> ...'
>
> is also a good measure for the number of SMTP connections that
> were forwarded to the MTA(s)?
>
> If not, is there another way to extract this number without
> querying the MTA?
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
> Regards,
>
> Jeff
>
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What about a grep -c "stat=Sent (OK)"  /var/log/maillog if you are using 
sendmail as the MTA? 

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