* James Seymour <jseym...@linxnet.com>:

> I'm curious: How might one gather and process mail server statistics
> *other* than parsing and processing the mail server's log file(s)?

The server could be gathering stats (snmp style) in a "stats" daemon
(which is, like qmgr, long running). Upon stop it would write
statistics to a database file (or into a real database) and would
reload the counters from the upon restart.


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