Helo, as one might say. Wading through logfiles to find a particular email has been taking up too much of my time recently [1].
I have written a logfile condenser that takes a postfix log and generates a single line per email, with (for example) timestamp, ham /spam, sender, recipient, spam score, size. Thus, for example, a 25000 line logfile (about 4MB) is condensed into 800 lines; grepping for " ham " pulls out 200 lines of actual delivered emails. It's reasonably fast (less than a second to do the condensing on a modern-ish box). I wrote my own because none of the existing logfile tools did quite what I want. The closest seemed to be this: http://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/lucid/man1/postfix2dlf.1.html The question is - is there any community interest in this tool? As something hacked up for my own purposes it is most definitely beta code. But if there's interest I could tidy it up and release it. It will probably upset the purists for two reasons: it's written in PHP [1] because that was going to be quickest for me; and it doesn't use regexps, but rather a lot of substr()s to get the information out. If there's something better out there, please say. [0] From the example stats - that's more than 100 lines of logfile per "actual" email. [1] It's still a command line tool.
