On Thu, Jul 09, 2009 at 06:23:09AM +0200, Magnus Bäck wrote:
> On Thursday, July 09, 2009 at 03:44 CEST,
> Sahil Tandon <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> [...]
>
> > You might be able to use the fact that qmgr(8) logs the original recipient
> > count. Example:
> >
> > postfix/qmgr[54662]: 98EF25C51: from=<[email protected]>, size=717, nrcpt=5
> >
> > Take care to avoid double counting in situations where mail to some
> > recipients is temporarily deferred. In that case, Postfix periodically
> > retries and similar qmgr(8) log entries will contain that same recipient
> > count with that same queue ID. That is probably one of many caveats when
> > parsing the logs to aggregate recipients per sender over any time period.
>
> Doesn't the nrcpt atttribute contain the number of *remaining*
> recipients? In that case the number will be steadily decreasing.
No, the recipient count does not change, it is read from the "size"
record at the top of the queue file.
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